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ALL ABOUT DEMETER
• Demeter means “barley mother.”
• Another name for her is Ceres.
• Zeus was very fond of her.• Demeter is the goddess of
plants and harvest.
PERSEPHONE’S STORY
Persephone is Demeter's daughter.
Persephone was tending to her gardens. While tending to
her gardens she was abducted by Hades. She was held in
the underworld. If you eat in the underworld you have to
stay there forever. In the underworld Persephone only ate
six pomegranate seeds. Zeus decreed that she should
stay there six months of the year. That is where we get
seasons.
MORE ABOUT DEMETER
Demeter’s children were Persephone, Dionysus,
Despoena, Arion, Plutus, Philomelus, and Eubulus.
Demeter is pictured as a mature motherly figure.
Demeter is the goddess who taught mankind about
agriculture.
Demeter’s emblem is the poppy, a bright red flower
that grows among the barley.
DEMETER
Demeter was the “Corn Mother” who blessed the
harvest.
The attributes of Demeter are a bundle of grain, a
scepter, a torch, and a sacrificial bowl.
Demeter was the goddess of fertility, grain, and
agriculture.