Demeter the goddess of harvest and presides. Even though Demeter is the goddess of
harvest she is also the goddess of sacred law and the cycle of life and death. Demeter had a
large family. She had three brothers and to other sisters. Her roman name is “Ceres” and her
other one is “Deo”.
Demeter's symbols are ear of wheat and the grains, the crocus flower, the narcissus,
and the daffodil. She was the source of all life and was a piece loving diety. Demeter was
the goddess that provided nutrition on earth and taught the mortals how to cultivate and how
to grow crops a lot easier. She was also awarded for bringing wheat to mankind. Demeter’s
Sacred plants are wheat, mint, and poppy.
Demeter's
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She also had two other sisters Hestia and Hera.
When she became an adult she had a child named Persephone and she was the goddess
of the under world.
Later in Demeter's life her daughter Persephone was kidnapped by Pluton (and with
the secret help from Zeus also). Demeter roamed the earth to search for her lovely daughter
by day and night with torches. When she found out where her daughter was with the help of
the Hermionians she left the sky and made her way to Eleusis. On her journey to find her
daughter she stopped at the house of Keleus (who was the current ruler of the Eleusinians)
for a break and they gave her food and drink. Finally she found her daughter Persephone
and Pluton gave her a pomegranate seed for a quick and safe journey back to her home
land and she ate the seed and Demeter and Persephone went back home.
The story of Demeter and Persephone is how the changing of the seasons came
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Most of the rituals carried out by Demeter and
Persephone are some of the famous rituals that family's in today's world use.
In the memory of Demeter famous paintings and a sanctuary was placed in her honor.
Her important sanctuary was at Eleusis in Attica which had religious origins and moments
dating back to the Mycenaean civilization from the 15th century B.C.E. There was also
another sanctuary and temple for Demeter on Naxos which was constructed in her at Dion.
Some of her famous art is from the sixth century B.C.E. In her paintings she is with her
daughter Persephone and they are both wearing crowns and and holding lighted torches.
Another famous painting of Demeter is of her depicting the birth of Athena. Demeter
must have been a popular goddess to have sanctuaries and paintings made in her honor.
Demeter the goddess of harvest and presides. She was the goddess of harvest and the
goddess of sacred law and the cycle of life and death. Her larger family with three brothers
and two other sisters. Her beautiful daughter Persephone that was kidnapped for a long