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The deep dark days of winter are upon us in the Northern Hemisphere. In Living on Earth’s special holiday story telling we here the Greek legends that explain winter.
Judith Black, an award-winning story teller for more than twenty years, relates the ancient Greek myth of the goddess Demeter and her daughter Persephone (per-SEFF-uh-nee), and how their tale explains the persistence of winter.