Persephone
c. 1300 BCE – 400 CEattested
Eleusis
- Greek
Queen of the dead for a third of the year because she ate pomegranate seeds underground. The story explains the seasons, but the ritual it belongs to was about surviving death, not about farming.
Known for
- the pomegranate seeds
- a third of the year below
- queen rather than captive
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.