Korean Tale
The Hare’s Liver
Never trust anyone whose intentions you don’t know. This Korean folk tale is about a hare whose life is saved thanks to its wits and imagination.
In far-off Greece, there’s a very tall mountain called
One of these beings was Demeter, the goddess of the harvest and agriculture. She was responsible for everything on Earth that grew, blossomed, reproduced and bore
The greatest and most powerful of all the gods was Zeus. He had dominion over the sky — he commanded thunder and lightning and controlled the forces of nature. The clouds were his
Zeus and Demeter had a daughter together. She was called Persephone, and she was a beautiful, sweet girl. She spent her days strolling through the heavenly meadows, playing with the butterflies, picking flowers and weaving them into lovely
When Hades, king of the underworld and god of the dead, noticed Persephone, he was
One day, as Persephone was playing in the meadow and plucking yellow daffodils, the ground beneath her feet parted and she plummeted straight into the underworld, into Hades’
Her mother heard the girl’s…