DemeterHush...

don’t speak, just listen to the voice of nature, to the symphony of the wind and to
the songs of the birds. You people pray to me for the abundance of your crops and gave offerings for
the goodness of your farm. I gave everything what you asked. I am the reason behind the growth of
your plants. Can you imagine what would it be if there was no me? I AM THE GREEK GODDESS
DEMETER, the daughter of Cronus and Rhea, sister ofZeus, Hades, Poseidon, Hestia, and Hera, the
goddess of harvest, crops, and fertility. Daughter of Cronus and Rhea. Sister of Hades, Hestia, Hera,
Poseidon and Zeus. The goddess of agriculture. Do you know my name? Do you know of this grief
and anger burning inside me? I have a daughter, Persephone -- maiden of the spring. But her uncle
took her to the underworld. That wretched, HATEFUL, damn Hades! He stole my beloved daughter
from me! I didn't know what happened at first but I knew that cry. Persephone's cry that echoed in
the high hills to the depths of the sea! I searched everywhere. I looked for Persephone everywhere
but I couldn't find her! I wandered for days. I was distraught. No mortal, no god not even a
messenger would tell me what happened!

So I approached the sun. He told me what happened.. My daughter was taken beneath the Earth.
She was among the shadowy dead in the Underworld. The sun told me that Persephone was
collecting some flowers with some companion at the vale of Enna. And she saw an exquisite flower.
It had a lovely bloom of PURPLE & SILVER (this is where the fake flower comes in). A Narcissus
flower, it was called. Like this one (holding the flower). Do you know where that flower came from?
That flower, the reason why Persephone is now in the Underworld. Do you know who called that
flower into being? ZEUS(throws flower to the sides in a "natural" way as if shocked)! Zeus, king of all
gods, my brother, Persephone's own father no less!

Until Persephone is returned to me, the lands will be a frozen desert. No leaves will grow on trees,
no seeds shall spring, humans won't harvest anything. I am Demeter, after all. I didn't care if the
humans died. I just want Persephone back. And because of this, Zeus ordered Hermes to go to Hades
and tell him to return Persephone to me because his humans were dying.

Finally, I saw her. My Persephone. You could imagine just how happy I was! But life if never so
pleasant. Persephone and I exchanged stories about everything while the other was away. I found
out that... that Hades, that DEVIL, that low-life! He gave Persephone pomegranate seeds! And
Persephone ate it. Even though I've told her that if she ever eats anything from the Underworld, she
can never leave permanently. So, I stayed at the temple the people of Eleusis made for me. Then my
mother, Rhea came to me. She told me that Zeus bids me to go back to Olympus. "Very well." I said.
But even if I go back there, nothing will comfort this grief. Not the sweet nectars, not even ambrosia
can comfort me of the fact that my daughter is now the wife of the king of the Underworld. Until
Persephone returned to me again, the lands remained dead. I withdrew all my earthly gifts from the
humans and only gave them back when Persephone was with me."
One day my daughter, Persephone, was taken away from me because that damn Hades, that hateful
wretched Hades abducted my daughter! And this flower was the reason whyPersephone is not here.
Do you know who made this into being? Zeus, the king of all gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus,
my brother and father of my daughter. He had promised Persephone to Hades without my consent.
And as revenge, I laid a curse on