Persephone EXTRACT

Persephone is a goddess from Greek mythology who was associated with spring, fertility, and the underworld, and is considered a symbol of death and rebirth.

Persephone is the beautiful and gentle daughter of the harvest goddess Demeter and Zeus. One day, while she was out with her companions, the lord of the underworld, Hades, was struck by her beauty. As Persephone was distracted by the sight of a flower, the ground beneath her feet opened up, and Hades appeared before her in his golden chariot pulled by four horses. He abducted her and took her to the underworld, where she was forced to become the queen of the dead.

Demeter, devastated by the loss of her beloved daughter, withdrew the gift of life from the earth. The crops withered, the fields lay fallow, and the world was plunged into darkness and despair. With the help of the wise sun-god, Helios, Demeter discovered Persephone and demanded that she be released from Hades' cruel grasp. Although her daughter is returned to her, because Persephone tasted the fruits of the Underworld, she must spend four months of the year in the underworld and the rest of the year on the surface with Demeter.

Interpretation

When Persephone returned to earth to live with her mother on Mount Olympus, the land would once again be fertile and fruitful. Further into the underworld the land will become barren. The story of Persephone symbolizes the cycle of winter and spring, the cycle of death and rebirth. My design will be the appearance of crops breaking out in spring and all things growing.

Research Images

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Midjourney Images

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Midjourney Prompts:

R1 - The Rape of Persephone, Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, 1684–1686, Florence, Luca Giordano

R2 - The Return of Persephone, by Luca Giordano, 1634-1705

R3 -The Return of Persephone, by Frederic Lord Leighton, 1830–1896, Scarborough, London

R4 -Proserpine, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1821-1882, Tate Modern Art Gallery, London

R5 - Marble statue group of IsisPersephone, Cerberus and Sarapis-

Hades, Archeological Museum of Herakleion, Crete

Midjourney Prompts:

M1 - high detail, Greek, The Queen of the Underworld returns to the earth and everything begins to grow, full body

M2 - The kidnapped goddess, ate a pomegranate, eaten a pomegranate, full body, Greek

M3 - high detail, Greek, goddess, underworld

M4 - high detail, Greek, The Queen of the Underworld returns to the earth and everything begins to grow, full body

M5 - Greek, goddess, What has been stolen, Standing in the underworld, The whole body, Everything stops growing, helpless, high detail

M6 - high detail, Greek, goddess of the underworld, Crops start to grow

M7- high detail, Greek, The Queen of the Underworld returns to the earth and everything begins to grow

M8 - Persephone, Symmetrical composition, half the queen of the underworld use gold and black , and half Greek goddess use gold and white

Persephone and her ladies were gathering flowers on the Nicene plain when she was drawn to a flower of extraordinary beauty

Hades falls in love with Persephone, and he appears in front of her with his chariot and snatches her back into the underworld

Demeter lost her beloved daughter and was heartbroken. She took back the gift of life from the earth and searched the earth for her daughter for nine days and nine nights alone, carrying a torch. After the sun God's help learned the daughter's whereabouts, and demanded her release from Hades's cruel control

Persephone became Queen of the Underworld, but soon after, under pressure from Demeter, Hades gave in and returned Persephone. Before leaving, Hades feeds her some pomegranate seeds, the fruit of the Underworld, which causes her to spend part of each year in the underworld

Prosephone returned to her mother and spent two-thirds of the year with her and one-third with Hades. This is the part of the year that corresponds to the winter months. Every spring, Persephone reunites with her mother, Demeter, marking the season of rebirth.

My model consists of two systems, bone and skin. I am inspired by the return of Persephone, after the change of winter to spring, all things grow. The design of Skin expresses a kind of snow. The design is a device for rising movement, and the part of Bone is a grain, which breaks the ground when it rises