S*Sjöliden's Princess Persefone, NFO n 22

Persefone is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. She becomes the queen of the underworld through her abduction by Hades (Pluto), the god of the underworld. The myth of her abduction represents her function as the personification of vegetation, which shoots forth in spring and withdraws into the earth after harvest; hence, she is also associated with spring as well as the fertility of vegetation.