Archetypes recur in mythical stories that are related from parent to child, teacher to student, and artist to audience. In centuries past, the tradition of folktale and mythology transmitted this wisdom of the people and projected their stories onto star constellations and planets. Here you will find some of the stories attached to their names.
Many scholars suggest that myths also represent a tradition of oral history.
The story of Pluto and Persephone may be symbolic of the struggle of a patriarchal culture taking power from a more ancient matriarchal culture. Today, the more ancient stories are also being rediscovered. Story of the Seasons Pluto emerged from the Underworld to kidnap Persephone and take her to be his Queen. Demeter, her mother, angrily searched the world for her daughter, refusing to allow fields to grow, until Persephone was returned. Winter lingered in the world.