Hades the God of the Underworld (including Crystal formations, gems and minerals) was the husband of Persephone. Persephone was the daughter of Demetra and Zeus. Persephone was the Goddess of Vegetation. Persephone as Queen of the Underworld received the souls of the dead into the earth, and acquired powers over the fertility of the soil, over which she reigned. The soil and minerals of the Earth
which produce the magical trove of crystals, gems and minerals which bring some magic into our lives. According to Homer's myth (I note there are many variations of the myth of Persephone's abduction) it is said that Zeus permitted Hades, who was in love with the beautiful Persephone, to carry her off as her mother Demeter was not likely to allow her daughter to go down to Hades. Persephone was gathering flowers with the Oceanids along with Artemis and Athena—the Homeric Hymn says—in a field when Hades came to abduct her, bursting through a cleft in the earth. Demeter, when she found her daughter had disappeared, searched for her all over the earth with torches. In most versions she forbids the earth to produce, or she neglects the earth and in the depth of her despair she causes nothing to grow. Helios, the sun, who sees everything, eventually told Demeter what had happened and at length she discovered the place of her abode. Finally, Zeus, pressed by the cries of the hungry people and by the other deities who also heard their anguish, forced Hades to return Persephone. Hades indeed complied with the request, but first he tricked Persephone by her, giving her some pomegranate seeds to eat. Persephone was released by Hermes, who had been sent to retrieve her, but because she had tasted food in the underworld, she was obliged to spend a third of each year (the winter months) there, and the remaining part of the year with the gods above. Persephone's Gems is a trove of crystals, books, sharing of knowledge and spirituality where we can indulge in magical experience that is more than just a buy sell transaction.
