Goddess Avenged

(The legend goes that Hades,God of the Underworld,abducted His beloved Goddess Persephone and took Her to His abode before Her mother Demeter could do anything at all.Faced by the rage of the Goddess bereft of Her daughter and the insistence of His brother Zeus, He makes a show of releasing Persephone ,but not before making sure that the Goddess will have to return to His world anyway by having fed Her a pomegranate from His garden.It was a rule of the Fates that whosoever consumed any food or drink in the Underworld was doomed to spend eternity there.This forced Persephone to return to Hades for winter each year.

Persephone,thereafter,was the protectress of marriage,Her abduction and subsequent marriage to Hades serving as the emblem of marriage.

However, in this alternative version, Persephone refuses to relent and accept the trickery meted out to Her. She is fierce, rigid and unyielding when Hades comes to take Her to the Underworld at Fall’s end.Here’s what happens thereafter…..)

Never before, among the mortals or atop the Mighty Olympus, did the coruscating moon behold ;

The breath of beauty, the defiance of viability,

That walked the decaying Earth and left entrancing spells to be told ;

Eons passed and eternities dulled, fainting beneath Her fiery beauty ,

And there She only breathed her demeanour – The Daughter to Goddess Demeter

 

 

Through the breezes that caressed , the Goddess in her fullest glory ;

And through the grasses that convulsed in the ephemera of the Divine presence ,

She outshone every measure of beauteousness and tossed at the shreds of unearthly aurae ;

Out She reached for a virgin Lily, with her elegant sweep of hands to get at its fickle essence ,

Divine to Divine, Heaven to Earth, loomed the blazing starkness – Her pace was equalled, and surpassed by the Helm of Darkness

 

 

Bewitched and enraged, with the wrath of a Goddess, She whirled around ;

And spoke to the shadow She only knew well as Her damned suitor ,

” Heavens and Zeus will themselves have to answer, the Godly insolence with which you abound ;

Trust your instincts and speak on more, holding my modesty any mooter ,

Cursed are you and Hell will unfold, if to any test my gravitas you so hold ”

 

 

“Your vexation I find sweet, more than your poise, my Goddess cherished ;

And to this world and the World I rule,I can swear on my descent from Cronus,

The desire to see you so notwithstanding, I shall not invoke your ire to have me from your realm banished ;

I, Hades, your justful paramour, have come to claim what is but mine, truly awakened, equally vinous ,

The year has moved half of its course and a quarter added to it – my pursuit for you, therefore, stands befit

 

 

Appalled by the unvarnished narration and the truth of it that dawned on Her ;

She took, but a moment to compose, what was a tempestuous battle raging ,

That threatened to tear her soul apart, ravishing her gentle grandeur ;

And like Artemis come alive, She turned to the moon fading ,

There She blazed without fire, with anger the very zenith of dire – The Goddess Persephone

 

 

“You have violated me times before, but that is to it, and no more ;

I, may have been by your trick,fated, to give a part of me to you ,

But that is what you will get precisely, as much as I do you abhor ;

The part of me which is yours, you can kiss a fond adieu ,

Take in as much of it as is within your bounds ’cause I, henceforth wont ever enter your dismal grounds ”

 

 

With this the Goddess raised Her hands and in a voice resonating with aggravation ;

Invoked the Spirit of Hestia – the flames that leaped, the conflagration that covered Her ,

Through the inferno that prevailed, She saw and clinched at the God of Underworld in consternation ;

And suddenly in a placid tone, which was gravely sombre ,

She pleaded the Goddess of Fire to stab into shreds her ethereal soul, and to cleanse her spirit whole

 

 

 

The flames, in answer, growled and shrieked and unfurled and leaped – to the mighty God of Hell ;

Out of the fire, and of fire He saw His Goddess come to Him ,

And with an embrace and a touch searing She took Him to His Shades to dwell ;

An instant later, the flames died, casting a surreal glow all grim ,

Out she walked, yet again, the unfazed Goddess,truly blessed- shedding to torment Her part-consort for eternity,the fiery part of Her soul coalesced