The ancieant myth about Persephone and Hades states that any living thing that eats food from the underworld must remain there for all time. Perssphone did eat six pomigranet seeds however, and therefore must spend six months of every year in the underworld. This myth was used by the Greeks and Romans to explain winter (Persephone was the goddess of spring and growing things)
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She did eat pomegranate seeds in the Underworld, and because of this she is forced to return to the Underworld for half of the year.
She would have had to stay in the Underworld for a period of time and when the time is over, she may return. But when it is time again, she returns to the Underworld.
Persephone ate 6 pomegranate seeds which made her stuck in the Underworld for 6 months a year.