[Greek Mythology] The Love of Persephone

Sitting by the gorgeous curtain stretching across the ground, the haggard goddess felt miserable in her heart.Persephone played the leaf flute intermittently, a tearful smile appeared on her pale and tired face because of the good memories of the past.She was thinking of her lover, the clever and handsome Hermes, which made her face, which had gradually lost its color after coming to Hades, glow with a strange brilliance.

"God." She murmured softly, "Father of the gods, how could you allow me to suffer like this! Is this my destiny? No, I can't be willing."

At this time she heard a breeze blowing the narcissus in the palace, but the sad Persephone did not look up.Then, she heard a voice that was so familiar and dreamy every night that she thought she was hallucinating.

"Hush—shush—please don't speak rashly, Persephone. My love, I am coming. Your Hermes has come to rescue you." The voice in the dream said to her.

The Goddess of Spring raised her tearful face tremblingly, she couldn't bear to break the dream at this moment—it wasn't a dream!Her Hermes, her most beloved Hermes, was lying on the branch of a big tree outside the palace, with the same joy and tears as her face.His eyes are so anxious, so gentle, and so loving.Persephone stood up and took a few steps to meet her—she burst into tears.

"Oh, my Hermes, if you come here so recklessly, you will definitely be discovered by Hades! I am weak for a moment... Hermes, how could I do such a foolish thing and ask you to do it for me? Taking such a big risk? I shouldn't be blowing that leaf flute just because I missed it!"

The Goddess of Spring wept sincerely, her eyes filled with tears.And the god of eloquence hastened to use his deft tongue to comfort his beloved goddess.Hermes coaxed:

"No, no, good Persephone, listen to me: I have asked the oracle of Zeus, the king of gods, and I am here to let the king of the underworld let you go. The order of the king of the gods, even the king of the underworld cannot be disobeyed." You will be able to leave this place safely. Persephone, if you will not give up, I will ask you to marry me forever after this escape! You must know that I can no longer bear this separation!"

"I am willing! I am willing!" Persephone couldn't help shouting, she looked excited and joyful, and stretched out her arms to hug her lover.The girl's shy blush climbed up her cheeks a second later, but it was quickly replaced by a gloomy complexion - the dull wheels rolled over the ground, and the horse's hooves knocked on the stone bricks.Besides the master of Hades, who else will come?

"Courage, Persephone!" Hermes encouraged her, "My love, please let us face this catastrophe together, and then welcome the glory of new life!"

"Ah, Hermes..." Before Persephone could finish her sentence, the door opened slowly.It was Hades, the majestic Hades in armor, who walked in. His pale eyes were as cold as ice, but there was a little warmth when he looked at Persephone.Pluto asked sternly: "Who trespassed in my palace and despised my queen?" His Pluto's scepter was slowly raised and tapped lightly in the void, "Is it you? Messenger of the gods, cunning The machine-changing Hermes?"

Before the words were finished, the God of Eloquence hastily left his hiding place and appeared between Hades and Persephone.He stood in front of the goddess of spring fearlessly, and this gesture made Hades frown.He asked: "So, my good brother, the master of Thunder, what did he send you to say to me?"

"Your Majesty Hades, the master of the underworld," Hermes said, and at the same time unfolded the golden scroll in his hand, so that the words on it illuminated the entire palace, "The father of the gods requests that you immediately release the captive goddess Persephone. You can see with your own eyes the oracle written by your brother, the order of the heavenly father cannot be violated, you—”

Pluto snatched the scroll containing the oracle, frowned and looked at it hastily, and snorted disdainfully.

"Ah, my arrogant and conceited younger brother." Hades stroked the brilliant light decoration on the oracle, and suddenly squeezed the supreme oracle with his fingers, "Go and tell him, The matter of the underworld cannot be discussed by the heavenly father. Persephone is my queen of the underworld, so there is no need to mention this matter again!"

"But noble Pluto, you—" Hermes still wanted to argue hard, but Hades was already impatient.He walked towards the terrified Persephone, and asked tenderly, "My love, why do you look so worried and tired? Is it not comfortable to live in the palace?"

Persephone avoided his hand stretched out to her, and mourned: "I only miss my mother and my lover."

"Your lover is here, and your mother will also come to our wedding banquet..." Hades was about to comfort her carefully, but Hermes pleaded again: "Your Majesty Hades, Persephone should not stay Here! Do you want to watch the Goddess of Spring wither and die?"

Pluto's face became more and more gloomy, and he raised the scepter to Hermes.

"A liar with good words, an emissary who attracts the dead." He said coldly, "Where do you think my underworld is, where others can enter and leave at will? Go! I take back the right to allow you to enter the underworld, and from this day onwards the underworld will be completely closed. , until I complete the wedding with the Empress Dowager—Go! Go! Go!"

He repeated the word "go" three times in a row, and suddenly a gust of cold wind blew up, bringing in the sound of miserable howling from the underworld.Persephone cried out "No", and her lover was pushed out of the dark underground by the strong wind...

"Hermes, my dear Hermes!" Persephone cried bitterly, covering her face.

"My love, don't do this." Pluto stepped forward and gently persuaded her, "You will be my queen, and you will share glory and life with me. What else are you not satisfied with?"

But Persephone said: "In this way, all the spring godheads I was born with gradually fade away, and the laughter on my face disappears, and I wither away with the life on the earth - as a pinch of eternal dust, alas, What's the point of that? Light! Is there any real light in Hades? My true and intimate lover has already been driven away by you!"

Her cries were so sad and mournful that Pluto could not persuade them in any way.During the stalemate, suddenly the god of the underworld—the son of Europa, the judge Minos came respectfully and reported a miracle to the king of the underworld.This one from Shinto:

"Your Majesty Pluto, there is a great event happening in the palace that a stranger enters the underworld. Just before you sealed the underworld, the poet, musician and handsome man named Orpheus crossed the kingdom of the dead without hesitation and came to Before your throne. He wants to plead with you, please return his lover, his wife, the beautiful and wise Euryx! We don’t know how to make a decision, so we come here to ask for your advice.”

Pluto pondered for a moment, and was about to speak.Suddenly Persephone asked faintly: "This mortal sounds like he has extraordinary courage—Hades, can I go and meet that poor husband?"

When Pluto saw that she was interested in foreign affairs, he was overjoyed and hurriedly said: "Then, my love, please come with me to the palace."

Persephone was no longer willing to refute, she just nodded slightly, and followed Hades onto his frame.The beautiful goddess felt sad and bewildered for a moment, and felt that all the lovers in the world were so affectionate and helpless.