Myths are very old narratives that, because they have been repeated many times, create patterns in our collective unconscious. Therefore, accessing these stories consciously can shed light on our own lives.
The myth is not a literal story, but a path of metaphors that it is up to each person to interpret according to their own journey to absorb its teachings. This is the power of stories and archetypes.
Korah was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. She lived a spring life on Olympus. While playing the flute and harvesting plants in beautiful fields, with a youthful and fresh air, she awakened the passion of Hades, King of death and the underworld.
Hades decides to ask Zeus, his brother, for permission to marry her. Zeus, however, faces a dilemma: either create a divergence with the most feared of Gods or subject his daughter to life in the underworld and face Demeter's displeasure.
This was one of the Heavenly Father's worst dilemmas. The obligation he felt to satisfy everyone was impossible. This is how destiny took over the events of this story.
Hades therefore decides to kidnap Korah and make her Queen of the hidden world. When her mother, Demeter, Goddess of Agriculture, discovers her abduction, all the crops dry up and Olympus is in a precarious situation.
At that moment, Zeus informs that if Korah has not eaten from the Pomegranate, she must return to Olympus. However, it was already too late. Korah, now Persephone, had already eaten the food of the dead and fallen in love with Hades.
Demeter then keeps her word and the curse, causing an endless winter. Zeus asks his mother Rhea for help to find a fair solution for everyone.
Thus, everyone agreed that Persephone would spend 3 months as Queen of Tartarus and 9 months would return to Olympus with her mother.
This myth explains the emergence of the seasons: the cycles of death and life, but mainly it is a reference to the cycles of transformation and rebirth that we all go through when facing our own psychological underworld. Especially those that arise from painful life events.
Persephone will never be Korah again. Her contact with the inner world made her a sensitive and intuitive goddess. If she had not experienced the abduction, this dramatic event and the cocoon of her shadows, she would not have resurfaced with a strengthened unconscious and reached her transformed and nourished version that now lives the summer and spring cycle of life.