upperworld

Updated: June 8, 2025

Then Persephone, hearing the words of Zeus that might not be gainsaid, uttered the only cry that had left her lips since she had sent out that cry that had reached her mother's heart. And Aidoneus, hearing the command of Zeus that might not be denied, bowed his dark, majestic head. She might go to the Upperworld and rest herself in the arms of her mother, he said.

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