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The mythological story says that a day of spring, the God Pluto, king of the underworld and brother of Jupiter, in Sicily emerge from Lake Pergusa and was struck by the vision that appeared to his eyes: in the midst of the meadows, the young Proserpina, together with the accompanying nymphs, collected colorful and fragrant flowers. See, in love and rapirla, was one for Pluto, and carried it down into hell. The rat was so sudden that no one knew how to give directions to her mother Ceres, which for three days and three nights Proserpina sought for all the earth, making light at night with a pine divelto and she turned in the crater of Etna. At the end of three days of unnecessary research, Ceres was angry and began to make men suffer, causing drought, famine and pestilence. The men then turned to Jupiter, they pleaded to find a solution, and Jupiter solved the problem, deciding which Proserpina same for eight months, from January to August, together with the earth mother, and for four months from September to December, below ground with her husband Pluto, thus leading to the alternation of only two seasons in the climate of Sicily.
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