grief is how this one begins. when persephone refers to her grandmother, she is referring to her great-grandmother, the titan gaia (the earth) not rhea. (we'll call this creative license...) her grandfather is another titan, kronos, god of time. he usurped his own father & was afraid his children would usurp him, so he ate them all, but zeus was spared by rhea, & eventually the gods usurped the titans and zeus's reign began.
in a story about death, we now have persephone's death-seeking thoughts given form as the mosquitoes.
and we're back to hades! who now has a new character design, which may or may not last. he asks zeus for the hand of his daughter Deoine. deoine is another name of Persephone's, this one emphasizes her relationship to her mother demeter/deo. (theoi.com) zeus then refers to demeter by one of her surnames, "brimo" the angry/terrifying, as he warns hades not to get on her bad side. zeus also refers to demeter as "dark-veiled" — a reference to how she sometimes appears in her grief as "dark veiled/cloaked" & a translation of one of her epithets [Kyanopeplos].
how much does hades and zeus have persephone's best interests in mind, and how much are they playing their own games?
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