Indonesian Version
Dalam cerita
Yunani kuno, ada seorang dewi cantik bernama Demeter yang menjaga bumi. Ia
sangat menyukai masa panen, sementara anak perempuannya, Persephone, menyukai
bunga-bunga musim semi.
Di bawah
permukaan bumi hiduplah seorang dewa bernama Hades. Tanahnya gelap dan suram.
Ia menculik Persephone karena kecemerlangannya. Persephone berguna untuk
menyinari dunia Hades. Demeter sangat kehilangan anaknya, sehingga ia berhenti
menjaga bumi. Bumi pun mongering. Tanaman mati dan orang-orang mati kelaparan.
Demeter berkata kepada dewa-dewa bahwa ia tidak bisa menjaga bumi sampai
anaknya pulang. Maka Zeus sang penguasa nirwana, menyuruh Hades untuk
mengembalikan Persephone kepada ibunya. Tetapi Zeus punya peraturan. Jika Persephone
pernah makan sesuatu dari dunia bawah tanah, ia tidak bisa kembali.
Ketika Demeter melihat anaknya
kembali, ia sangat bahagia bunga-bunga kembali bermekaran. Lalu, ia mendengar
kenyataan yang pahit. Persephone pernah makan empat benih delima ketika tinggal
bersama Hades. Persephone harus kembali kepada Hades. Itu artinya, bumi akan
mati. Zeus tidak mau menanggung hal ini. Zeus memutuskan bahwa Persephone akan
tinggal bersama Hades selama empat bulan setiap tahun, satu bulan untuk setiap
benih yang telah dimakannya.
Sejak saat itu, bumi menjadi dingin
dan gelap ketika Persephone meninggalkan Demeter. Tetapi ketika ia kembali,
bunga-bunga bermekaran dan matahari bersinar cerah. Ibu dan anak itu menikmati
musim panas bersama-sama, tetapi ketika waktunya tiba bagi Persephone untuk
meninggalkan ibunya, tanaman mulai mati dan bumi menjadi semakin dingin.
English Version
In the
ancient Greek story, there is a beautiful goddess named
Demeter is keeping the earth.
Demeter is keeping the earth.
she was very fond of the harvest,
while her daughter Persephone likes the flowers of spring.
while her daughter Persephone likes the flowers of spring.
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| Demeter and her daughter Persephone |
Below the
surface of the earth there lived a god named Hades.
The soil is dark and
gloomy.
He kidnapped Persephone for its brilliance.
Persephone is useful for
illuminating the world of Hades.
Demeter really miss her, so she stopped
keeping the earth.
The earth dried. Plants die and people starve to death.
Demeter said to the gods that he could not keep the earth until her return.
So
Zeus the lord nirvana, ordered Hades to return Persephone to her mother.
But
Zeus has rules. If Persephone never eaten anything out of the underground
world,
she could not return.
When Demeter
saw her daughter back, she was very happy and the flowers return blooming.
Then, she heard
a bitter reality.
Persephone ever eaten four pomegranate seeds while staying
with Hades.
Persephone must returns to Hades.
That means, the earth will die.
Zeus did not want to bear this out.
Zeus decided that Persephone would stay
with Hades for four months every year,
one month for every seed that has been
eaten.
Since then,
the earth became cold and dark when Persephone leaves Demeter.
But when she
returned, the flowers are blooming and the sun is shining brightly.
Mother and
daughter enjoy the summer together,
but when the time comes for Persephone to
leave her mother,
the plants begin to die and the earth becomes increasingly
cold.