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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 …show more content…

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 …show more content…

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

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