User blog comment:Puddinginthesky/Persephone!/@comment-3142946-20101022180722

Ummm, I know a different version. Hades kidnapped Persephone, and made her eat seeds from the dead trees in the underworld. Her mother Demetra, beeing a goddess of the nature, and crushed by saddness made Earth look like she was dieing. Then Zeus, who as the "main" god could not allow the Earth to die, sent for Persephone, but Hades, in love as he was, did not want to let her go. Demetra started to cry and her tears foze and made snow. That only made the situation worse for the humans, so Zeus made a pact with Hades, so he whould let her go for three seasons - spring, summer and fall ( the fall is the saddest because Demetra knows her daughter is about to leave ) and he gets only one season with her - winter. The problem was that Persephone fell in love with Hades so she wanted fall and winter wit him.