Perhaps the most well-known of the dark goddesses is Persephone, the most beautiful Greek goddess, who spends several months in the underworld each year and is an archetypal way of explaining winter.

After the Olympians prevail during the Titanomachy—a war between Titans and Olympians—young godling and Titan Hekate flees with her mother to the Underworld. With Zeus and Poseidon in pursuit ...

At its best, Natsuo Kirino's The Goddess Chronicle is a dark and lovely feminist retelling ... must tend the dead and show them the way to the underworld. But Namima rebels. She flees the island ...