Pomegranate Lips - Derivakat [OFFICIAL M/V] 

This song is so good

Second hopefully

I’m gonna have to replay this 5 million times 😍😍

THIS WAS AMAZING!

this song had no right to slap that hard

Thanks for some context

Persephone is bound to the underworld due to eating a pomegranate

@@maozadong552 Which she was tricked into eating by Hades after he kidnapped her, though she only ate half the seeds of the pomegranate, so she only is bound there for half the year. Hence why her mom, Demeter, gets sad and ruins the weather for ~6 months per year. All this Percy Jackson nerd knowledge finally has a use…

@@mr.stuffdoer8483 I might be wrong, but I don’t remember hades tricking persephone. I believe she ate them on her own.

@@puddot1079 the story of hades and persephone is really old, so there are a lot of versions

Not really? Underworld gods were generally something people avoided all around, but Hades was the one most avoided, getting an infinite amount of epithets so people wouldn't have to say his name in risk of obtaining his attention. "Kore" is just as well almost certainly just another name to avoid Persephone, and we are lucky to have the name at all, but in most myths with her she is the kinder counterpart to Hades strict order, and usually when leniency is given, its because of Persephone.

Also theres a good chance, origin myth aside that underworld Persephone has existed longer than the goddess of spring. Since we have a lot of correlations of Demeter and her daughter in pre-ancient Greece shit, as little as we have

@@nekocup5524 I suck at explaining things but Overly Sarcastic Productions has a really nice video explaining the myth and going deeper into the history of Persephone I really recommend you check it out :D

She was also given the nickname: Dread Persephone.

I love Percy Jackson (books)

FINALLY SOMEONE MENTIONS DREAD PERSEPHONE, HER MAIN VERSIONS BEING DESPOINA AND KORE, thank u u lovely human

@@StylishWitch I love the chibi Pyrrah pfp

WE STAN KORE!

@@StylishWitch sorry I don’t know much about Greek mythology? Who is Kore and Despoina?

@@AmphibiousCreature876 Kore was her name before she became queen of the underworld

songs, especially of this variety, are always made better with the clacking of heels

Did you kill for that user?!?!

Ok ladies and gents let's just say that derivakat never disappoints with any song especially a song like this it's absolutely badass and I hope you keep up the good work derivakat

Do u read Percy Jackson?

@@subwayfootlong5918 it’s about Persephone, a figure from Greek mythology

Same!!!!

Why does this have no replies

can i have a timestamp for the btch try me, i cant hear it :(

@@pikushii_ it's not actually in the song, I just think that's the vibe of the song :D

@@demi_goddex ohhhh, thanks for responding, im so stupid lol

Abso-frickin-lutely.

Thanks for the analysis, I love reading these kinds of comments.

jeeeez

Pretty Sure there was somethings along the lines of persephone going back once a Year to the oberworld bringing the spring ans Everytime she Leaves for the underworld Demeter was so Angry that she coated World in ice(Winter)

I think the "kiss of death" ties into the "pomegranate lips" because, correct me if I'm wrong, pomegranates stand for death and fertility in Greek

@@DasAugenTV yep! Thanks for the correction! If I'm not wrong, she caused the crops to die, too!

Sameee

AYO FIRST COMMENT

hello random verified(? idk waht th emusic thing is called tbh) person

agree:)

Agree

Truer words never spoken.

Agree :D

true though

she was litterally reffered to as "dread persephone" and was considered to be ruling the underworld alongside her husbamd as an equal to him, wich obviously was very rare. so yes she very much is a bad*ss

Well, she is happy. She's in a healthy and loving relationship with Hades.

​@@PrimordialNyx in Greek mythology, Hades kidnapped her (meaning against her will) and forced her to stay by tricking her into eating pomegranate seeds. There is nothing happy or healthy about a young girl (she was a child by the way) being held against her will be her adult uncle.

⁠​⁠@@annettenazaroff3636that’s one version. Another is that Persephone ate the pomegranate on her own will. Regardless, in most versions of myths Hades is more caring and faithful to Phersephone than most gods were to their wives.

@@annettenazaroff3636 First, in no part of the myth it is implied that she was a child, that was Helen when she was kidnapped by Theseus and the other idiot (yeah I don't even bother to remember his name). Second, If we go for the homeric hymn of Demeter (well the part that isn't torn anyway), the seeds are mentioned twice and they contradict each other, the first time it's when Hades accepts letting Persephone go, there he puts them in her hand and promises that her rulership, honor and power will be equal to his, she'll be a queen of queens, that he will try to be the best husband to her (that's why I don't really like the character of Nico as a demigod son of Hades in Percy Jackson, because it's a contradiction with the characteristic trait of Hades of treating promises, even without swearing by the Styx, as law and the only way to make him bend his laws is if the one who asks is Persephone herself) and that he will make sure to punish those who disrespect her personally, that's something Hera (whose domain as goddess of marriage was disrespected by her own husband almost daily) or Amphititre (who only has the position of her kids as heirs and her position as Poseidon's wife secured) don't have and Helios said earlier in the hymn that sooner or later everything will end up in the Underworld; the second time is when Persephone is reunited with Demeter and when she is asked if she ate anything in there, she says that Hades forced the seeds in her mouth with a kiss; which is rather interesting, since it implies that the Iron Queen lied to her mother. Third, what makes the relationship rather wholesome is not how it began (still better than how Hera's started, at least he didn't sexually assault her, and when even Ovid, who hated authority, gods and Athena with the passion of a thousand suns, doesn't add that, we can totally exclude that possibility, also the kidnapping was Zeus' idea too) but how it ended, Persephone is not the goddess of Spring, she is only the Queen of the Underworld, she is a RULER (on caps) of one of the three Greek Mythological Realms, and the only one who can object to her decisions it's also the only one who can't say no to her, out of the three wives, Persephone was the one who won the lottery both literally (Hades was also the god of Riches and he promised her everything) and metaphorically (she ended up with her own kingdom and, according to Helios, sooner or later everything else)

(Clearly I like Demeter cuz my name on pretty much everything is Demeter but y’know-)

Demeter appreciation day is everyday 🗣️🗣️🗣️

sometimes i forget there are different versions.

@@elizabethrosewrites Indeed, I only found out about the other versions of the same story a few years after starting to look into Greek mythology. I go by my og story, though, but everyone’s free to listen to the story thinks is best. After all, at the end of the day, Hades and Persephone are still a pretty happy married couple.😄

@Janland Vignesh Persephone from Greek mythology

@Janland Vignesh its Persephone a Spring Goddess and the queen of the underworld in Greek mythology (Also the wife of Hades and i think that the song is all about the myth of how they got married)

There is going to be a hades and Persephone character on dsmp and it isn’t going to go well for hades

@@JustLex25 What?

well Zeus was the one who orchastrated and told Hades he approved of it and told him to kidnap Persephone, even in the original myth Zeus is blatantly said to be the one at fault for basically saying "Hey I'll give you my daughter, shes totally on board" (ps she wasnt) but in the end after Hades discovered that he gave her a choice to stay or leave and gave her pomegranate seeds, then after that the tablet containing that part of the original myth was broken and we dont know what happens after that. But the next tablet which was relatively unbroken showed that Persephone gets officially maried to Hades but can still go above ground for half a year and only needs to spend half her time in the underworld, so it wasnt all that bad.

Honestly this song contains alot of things that actually carry over to most works most depictions of Hades and Persephone have them being a very healthy couple but also a suspicious amount of Persephone running the show basically

@@augustuslunasol10thapostle true lol but I love the head cannon (if you'd call it that) all around, it's pleasing :D

Some of the lines in the song seem almost more directed at Demeter than they do Hades, so maybe part of the song is her saying to Hades, "We are equals, no ifs no buts". And the other part is her to Demeter, "I'm not Kore anymore, I'm the queen of the dead, I'm not your little flower girl".

they would be bangers man

wholesome hades and Persephone??? didn't he literally kidnap her?

Greek mythology because of Persephone???

YES

@@niyx1186 yes duh!! I was talking about how the music sounds :P

@@Runealin Derivakat always has good music

​@@niyx1186 I couldn't agree more with that statement, however music giving off hot women vibes unfortunately doesn't always make it good 😔 so I don't see how that correlates

Fun Fact: Persephones name used to be Kore before becoming the queen of the underworld :D I don't remember what Kore means but it's something to do with spring lol, Persephone means 'bringer of death' so it'd make sense

@@RU-vids_NPC as far as I know, Kore means 'the girl' or 'maiden'. It was a way to talk about Persephone without invoking her name because no one wanted to attract the attention of the Queen of the Dead in ancient times. Story wise and in the context of this song, saying, "it's Persephone" is a way of standing up for herself and demanding respect.

@@RU-vids_NPC Aye, Kore means the Maiden which is probably a reference that while in Spring she was pure

I didn’t know satans body was in the nineth circle! That’s interesting

You forgot the massive thing about Persephone being technically Hades equal and probably having more say in the running of the underworld then Hades himself

I think if you got a pomegranate you could stain your lips with it

@@samparker9631 well technically yes, but it won't have the same effect and usefulness as a lipstick would

what's Persephone's candle if you don't mind me asking? /gen

@@emwara1233 When I originally bought it I was waaay broke so it's just something I picked up from the Dollar Tree, but it's a tall, glass cased, scented candle with three layers of different smells. The scents are 'Juicy Raspberry', 'Blackberry Sorbet', and 'Berry Smoothie'. She helped me pick it out for her :D (Also I don't mind you asking at all! Persephone didn't seem to mind either, luckily)

@@emwara1233 In case you were asking what candles of Gods/goddesses are, they're basically the candles of a God or Goddess in which they use the flames to communicate with you. They also give you an urge to light it when they want something from you or want to tell you something. Search up some more info if you would like :)

@@B4TS1E @PudgiePoggies ok thank you!! that's super cool :)

I don't have a candle, but Skadi watches me through a wooden gnome. She approves of my knife collection. Also, please ask Persephone if her husband is okay. Haven't heard from him in a while, starting to get worried.

The guy that wasn't actively trying to kidnap and marry his wife did get rescued later on and Persephone was similarly protective of Hades. In some myths even the crueller one of the two (minthe).

Technically, by Greek law, he didn't kidnap her. He approached Zeus, her dad, expressing a desire to marry her. Zeus gave his approval and basically ordered Hades to take her, since he was hesitant. Hades went to claim his bride, as basically ordered by Zeus. If anyone is to blame, it's not Hades.

In some versions of the myth, she willingly went to the underworld and decided to stay there

@@kellyryan9866 there is actually no true version of the myth like that. Persephone willingly entering the underworld was made up by Charlene Spretnak in 1978 as a way to make the original myths more appropriate for her 4-year old daughter. Charlene later had her story low-key stolen by Marjorie Graham. Though both women claimed that the story is a pre-Helenistic version, there has been no evidence thst such a version ever existed before 78.

@@torazely i didn't know about that

yess

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This is a Persephone song right? And how she fell in love with Hades. Demeter being angry in the background

@@Ma-fm3cm yeah she even says "the name is Persephone" and pomegranate is usually related to death in greek i think

It is indeed about Persephone, who was kidnapped by Hades with her father's endorsement, then grew to love him while Demeter was causing famines to try and force Hades's hand and get her back. That whole myth is essentially both of her parents being under the impression that they're allowed to dictate her life, and this song seems to encapsulate how Persephone would disagree.

@@Ma-fm3cm yep :7 There's also different stories of it aswell! Like hades kidnapping her bc he got shot by a love arrow from eros or the fact that they actually do fall in love with each other etc... its pretty cool Also another fun fact they actually have good marriage and won't cheat with each other and I think that's a great health relationship goals :D

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TRUEE!!!!

for a second there, i thought you were a bot, but yes it was quite the bop

@@randomthings8732 lol, not a bot, dont worry

@@possum___ phews

its been an hour..

lmao 😭

Maybe they like the song a little too much

@@thecummiestcreator yep definitely they really really liked it.

Na they ain't finished watching cus they put it on loop

Yeah, I think so too

U from Greece?

As a Greek too, this is certified legendary

I was literally think of this the whole time

I saw this and was like, did she read lore Olympus!??????

YEEESSSSSS

@@bonabell767 I imagine this song is her confronting Apollo after she's married Hades

Ikr! High key Lore Olympus vibes

Oh, I've simped for flower-child-turned-Gothic-Queen since I first heard of her. So terrifying that the Greeks avoided saying her name, she's the Dread Queen Persephone and if you cross her, you'll wish you had simply let her husband have his way with you. And everyone becomes her subject eventually.

@@bluesbest1 that sounds like fun

*aphrodite would like to know your location*

Persephone's original name was Kore, which meant maiden. Persephone either means doom or chaos bringer

@@mughil128 I get my Mythical facts and theories from OSP, who says that "Kore" and "Desponia" are the titles they gave the goddess named "Persephone" to avoid saying her name. "Kore", aka "Young Girl/Maiden" in her role as Demeter's daughter and "Desponia", aka "Ruler/Queen" in her role as Queen of the Underworld. I highly recommend their channel. They do a lot of research, state where it ends and their conjecture begins, and make it all generally funny.

Yeah ikr

True that

Same

Same currently it's my obsession 😳

Same, this is literally my mood 24/7, especially given some of the guys I dated in high school.

OK I need this Playlist for reasons...

LMAO i found this song through the same playlist and have been obsessed ever since

Same here

SAME

You should

DND mode on

@[ Alpaca ] YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

It is

Fun fact: in the original myths Persephone was the sole ruler of the underworld

She deserves to usurp the underworld just as a little treat y’know?

Medea would absolutely have had this song blaring at full volume as she planned her revenge.

@@torazely omg yes

@@ooglegoogle8227 medea: great gods, please. Give me the inspiration I need to cause the downfall of my awful, cheating husband Jason! Persephone: girl, I have the PERFECT song for you.

I LOST WHICH PART I WAS ON SO I HAVE TO READ IT ALL OVER (not complaining though)

@@Salsa.birdie honestly I’m probably gonna re read it anywzy