Introducing 'Mythological Couples'

Greetings!

Last week we’ve wrapped the Olympians up, so it’s time to move onto the next stage of this project.

As we’ve already mentioned back in January, once we were done with the Olympians, we were planning to talk about some of our favourite mythological couples.

So that’s what we’ll be doing, but with a twist too; we won’t be just talking about the couple and the myth that comes with it, but, each week, we will be doing a story based on that myth too.

Of course we are completely out of our minds for thinking we’ll be able to pull this off (because clearly, when you are already working on a million projects with someone, why not add another thing to that list? :-p ), but we’ll try our best to do so.

Soooo this week, to kick things off properly, we’ll be talking about Persephone and Hades.

Hades fell in love with Persephone; he asked for her hand in marriage. Her father, Zeus, agreed, but her mother, Demeter, refused, so he abducted her.

Immediately Demeter went looking for her. When she realised she wasn’t going to easily get Persephone back, she decided to put a stop to the Earth’s produce of crops, thus bringing famine down to people, in order to force Zeus to demand Persephone’s return.

Hades agreed to release Persephone, but she had already eaten a few pomegranate seeds, so she had to spend some time in the Underworld too.

Mythology focuses mostly on Demeter’s reaction when she found out Hades had abducted Persephone and what she did to get her back, so we felt there’s a lot of room for making a story out of it, a story that talks more about Hades and Persephone and their story.

So we went on and did just that! :-D

As you may have guessed already, our next entry will be that story, and we are very excited about it, so stay tuned for that! :-)