Proserpina

She is the "Fearful Queen" of the iron-walled Underworld, but also the "Creeping One" who brings the emerald life back to the fields. Unlike her Greek counterpart, Proserpina is a goddess of the deep soil, representing the Roman obsession with the agricultural cycle as a contract with the dead. Why does the pomegranate taste of both sweetness and sorrow? She is the sovereign of the hidden seeds, the one who proves that the most beautiful things in the world must spend half their time in the dark to remain vibrant.