Terminalchaos said:
You're referring to Persephone, daughter of Ceres the goddess of fertility. Before Persephone's abduction into the underworld by Hades, there was supposedly eternal spring and summer. Due to the great pomegranate compromise, Ceres mourns for half the year and the seasons follow her moods. Funny that the pomegranate was the subject of that myth because it seems to be one of the last fruits before the fall and winter frosts.
Actually the mother of Persephone was Demeter (the Roman name might have been Ceres).The reason why she stays six month with Hades and six months on earth is because she ate six pomegranate seeds while with Hades.Only by the intervention of Zeus was this deal struck.
Also, Hercules is the Roman name for the hero, the Greeks called him Heracle. I have a thing about people mixing up the Greek and Roman names. I was watching the movie Juno, and they mentioned something about who Juno was in mythology. I kinda spazzed when they got it wrong. Juno is the Roman version of Hera (Zeus's wife and a total *****). The month of June is named after her. (I had no life as a child and spent most of my time in libraries reading books on Greek/Roman/Norse/Egyption and Chinese mythology)
Nemisis :: Goddess of retribution
DEIMOS :: God of fear, dread and terror, and his twin-brother
PHOBOS (Phobus):: God of panic fear, flight and battlefield rout.
I would also like to say I'm pleased so far that I've seen, no one has said Apollo as the god of the sun. Apollo was the god of music/poetry, Hellios was the personification of the sun.
The_root_of_all_evil said:
Pan was actually Dionysus in a different form.
His name is also the root of the word Panic, as he woud often send people into strange fits with his pan-pipe music.