Her husband knew that he must obey the word of Zeus and send her up to earth away him, but he prayed her as left him to have kind thoughts of him and not be so sorrowful that she was the wife of one who was great among the Immortals. And he made her eat a pomegranate seed, knowing in his heart that if she did so she must return to him. He got ready his golden car and Hermes took the reins and drove the black horses straight to the temple where Demeter was.