Persephone
It is a little known detail of the Persephone story that if she had not eaten a pomegranate seed given to her by Pluto then he would not have had power over her to make her stay with him in the underworld.Pluto, being god of the dead, is here rendered as a skeleton. He is offering Persephone the pomegranate seed. Persephone is not too very interested in him, and holds the flower basket that associates her with her mother, Demeter, an earth goddess. Cerberus, the three-headed hound of hell, scratches fleas and bites himself. The underworld is rendered as a cold dark cave, the snowy setting serving as a reminder that winter is the result of Persephone’s annual dwelling with Pluto in the underworld.