Break a pomegranate

Persephone, the chthonic goddess of the Underworld, was kidnapped by Hades and taken off to live in the underworld as his wife.

It was the rule of the Fates that anyone who consumed food or drink in the Underworld was doomed to spend eternity there. Persephone had no food, but Hades tricked her into eating six pomegranate seeds while she was still his prisoner and so, because of this, she was condemned to spend six months in the Underworld every year.