Either way, she hasn’t spoken to Persephone since the season’s started. She’s been waiting since the start of the seasons for her daughter to come to her senses and realize she couldn’t make a marriage to a man from the underworld work. Deme then went into retirement on the mean streets of Olympus.Persephone is the soul goddess of the harvest/nature in the Hadestown universe. Heartbroken, Demeter threw up her hands and resigned her position as tender of the earth.Persy clung to Hades and said she’d already chosen. So Demeter asked her daughter which she would rather have her mother’s home above, or her husband’s down below. When Persephone finally did show up, Demeter was NOT happy: turned out she’d run off with some penniless mook from the underworld - a “lesser god” in every way - and married the man! Deme barked her daughter for causing all this mayhem and worrying her so, then took her by the arm to get her marriage annulled.
The Fates, she thought, had taken everything she loved from her. She would kill all the beautiful things of the people of earth and send them down to hell for what they did to her and her daughter. She would not tend a single field or see anything grow upon the soil. Oh how no one knew a winter like that first winter! Demeter wanted the whole world to suffer - gods and men alike - for failing to find Persephone. But when she got home, Persephone was gone. Deme had plans to marry Persephone off to an Olympian delegate - putting all those ugly rumors bout’ her baby in the past - once she came back from business.The Great War was years ago and it wasn’t like SHE was gonna be the lady of the harvest! But Demeter sure did and would rag her daughter day in and day out for her little excursions, which Persy came numb to after awhile. For all her elegance, Persephone had earned a reputation in the pantheon, not that noticed much. Persephone grew up to be a bit of a party girl with a heart “to trusting” of men, mortal and god alike, and all at such a young age too! Persephone loved hosting “parties” for men and always had a new one on her arm when her mama wasn’t looking. She did NOT, however, love her daughter’s behavior. True to mythology, Demeter LOVED her daughter.The one good thing she seems to have gotten from that union long ago, whichever one it is, was her daughter Persephone. Deme would then ask threaten you never mention her husband again. Regarding the whereabouts of her husband (not Zeus - who she also is not related to), Deme would tell two stories: one was how a goddess loved a human man until the Fates had their way and took him from her the other said she used to mingle with the other gods plenty - until another god decided he knew what she wanted.She was a notorious crab-apple with old fashioned-home-grown values. Despite this, she had about as much love for men as she did the rest of the gods.
She was a working-woman in charge of her own plantation and the tender of the earth and it’s harvests.
One of the greatest questions I could ask about Hadestown is where in the world is Demeter? The actual answer to that is simple: she’s unimportant to the myth of Orpheus and thus has no part to play in Hadestown.
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