53. Persephone in the Underworld

Story Prescription: A favourite tale that shows us that after darkness there is light, that after winter there is spring, that after grief, there is hope.

 

Story Caution: This story contains contains themes of rape within a paradigm of mythic narrative.

 

A story from Ancient Greece, about a daughter called Persephone's abduction, and her mournful, wrathful and unrelenting search by her mother, Demeter.

 

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Story Sources: Homer; Ovid; Myths of the Sacred Tree