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Sterling silver, 18k gold, hand-carved ivory from recycled piano keys, crazy-lace agate, garnet, and freshwater pearls.
Size 1 1/4" x 2"
Price: $990
SOLD
Persephone, daughter of Zeus and Demeter (the goddess of the harvest) was a young woman of astonishing beauty. Although born of he gods, she lived away from Mount olympus, preferring insead to be a goddess within Nature before the days of planting seeds and nurturing plants. Picking flowers in a field one day with three nymphs, she was abducted by Hades, who burst up through a cleft in the earth and stole the girl away to his Unerworld realm. Only Helios, the sun, saw the abduction and it was he who finally informed the depressed Demeter, desperately searching for her lost daughter. Upon hearing Helios' story, she turned the three nymphs accompanying Persephone into the Sirens for not having intervened. With Demeter's sadness at the loss of her daughter came th loss of the harvest; the earth was dying, an finally Zeus himself forced Hades to return Persephone. But beneath the dying ground, Hades had persuaded his new Queen to eat six pomegranate seeds, which bound her to rerun to the Underworld six months a year, one for each seed. Thus the seasons were born; spring ruled the earth for half the year when Persephone returned above ground, and winter the other half while she remained with Hades.
A dual-sided woman who showed innocence and a love for nature above ground and a powerful, merciless aspect as the Queen of Hades, Persephone is pictured on the front of the pendant, gently cupping a pomegranate ripe from the tree. Her smile displays her knowledge of both the spring and winter seasons of the earth and human heart. The necklace is 10.5" long. |
