Even as a young girl, Persephone was very beautiful. She, the daughter of the fertility goddess Demeter, was soon seen as the ever-returning spring itself. Persephone was the young blossoming girl, the beautiful maiden par excellence.

She is the daughter of Zeus and his sister Demeter and is often called Kore or Kora.

In the case of the seasons, it was Persephone, the goddess of fertility. She loved nature. Everything she touched bloomed instantly. Hades, the god of the underworld, was impressed by her beauty and wanted to take her as his wife.

Demeter initially convinced Zeus to bring Persephone back from the underworld, but on the condition that Persephone must not have eaten a single morsel in the underworld by then. But even gods get hungry at some point, and so Persephone sneaked into the garden of the underworld and ate a piece of pomegranate.

Askalaphos, the gardener of Hades, watched them. He quickly reported to Hades what he had seen. There were twelve seeds in the pomegranate, four of which Persephone had eaten. That's exactly the four months she has to stay in the underworld. And then it's winter on earth.