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Persephone, Queen of the Underworld The story of Persephone, the sweet daughter of goddess Demeter who was kidnapped by Hades and later became the Queen of the Underworld, is known all over the world. It is actually the way of the ancient Greeks to explain the change of the seasons, the eternal cycle of the Nature's death and rebirth.
As a goddess of the underworld, Persephone was given euphemistically friendly names. 1  However it is possible that some of them were the names of original goddesses: 2  Despoina (dems-potnia) the mistress (literally the mistress of the house) in Arcadia. 3  Hagne, pure, originally a goddess of the springs in Messenia.