Persephone Candle (pomegranate and dragon's blood)

Fragrance notes: pomegranate and dragon's blood Persephone is one of the most well-known of the Greek goddesses. Going by many titles, she is the Queen of the Underworld and the Dead as well as the Goddess of Spring and Nature. Like most origin stories in Greek mythology this one begins with closed door dealings, violence, and trickery. Unbeknownst to Persephone, her father Zeus accepts the request of Hades, the powerful God of the Underworld, for his daughter’s hand in marriage. The event known as the ‘Abduction of Persephone’ details a flower-picking Persephone snatched up by Hades on his golden chariot and carried down into the Underworld to be his queen. Obviously distraught over her daughter’s disappearance, Persephone’s mother Demeter, the Goddess of Harvest and Agriculture, forbids the earth to produce. Hearing the hungry pleas of the people of earth, the gods beseech Zeus to intervene. Hades agrees to let Persephone go but not before he tricks her into the eating the food of th