"We are never alone when we are with Mother Nature."

~ A.D. Williams ~

 

 The word nature comes from the Latin word, natura, meaning birth or character.

Greek myth

Aeon (Chronos), Gaia and four children

In Greek mythology, Persephone, the daughter of Demeter, goddess of the harvest, was abducted by Hades, god of the dead, and taken to the underworld as his queen.

Demeter was so distraught that no crops would grow and the "entire human race would have perished of cruel, biting hunger if Zeus had not been concerned" .

Zeus forced Hades to return Persephone to her mother, but while in the underworld, Persephone had eaten pomegranate seeds, the food of the dead and thus, she must spend part of each year with Hades in the underworld.

Demeter's grief for her daughter in the realm of the dead, is reflected in the barren winter months and her joy when Persephone returns is reflected in the bountiful summer months. (Larousse 152)

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