| Names: | Persephone; Kore (Maiden); Despoina (Sovereign Queen - local mystery-cult); Lat. Proserpina. With her mother Demeter, is worshipped as the Two Goddesses |
| Epithets: | Dreadful. |
| Powers: | Seasons; fertility of earth; death & rebirth. |
| Attributes and symbols: | Pomegranate; torch; flower. |
| Gifts to mortals: | Seasons; immortality for her mystic initiates. |
| Origin: | Daughter of Zeus and Demeter. |
| Loves: | --- (sometimes, Adonis: spends part of the year with her.) |
| Spouse: | Hades. |
| Children: | Mystical child Iacchus; Orphic Dionysus-Zagreus (from Zeus). |
| Chosen people/ places: | Eleusis: the place of the Great Mysteries. |
| Pageant: | Virgin maidens - up on earth; spirits of the dead - in Hades. |
| Allies/ favorites: | Hecate; Triptolemus; Ploutos (god of wealth). |
| Adversaries: | Aphrodite - for the love of Adonis. Perithous: wanted to abduct her back from Hades. |
| Victims: | Orpheus & Eurydice; Peritous (chained to the rock in Hades). |
| Notes: | She spends the summer season with her mother up in the light; the winter season - down with her gloomy husband. |