![]() ![]() When she finds out what happened, she wanders through the cities of humans, in disguise At Eleusis, she becomes the nurse of Demophon. Sources: The Homeric Hymn to Demeter Persephone is abducted by Hades, god of the dead, to be his wife – with Zeus’s permission Demeter searches for her in vain, bereft and enraged. Etiological: explains the yearly cycle and the cult at Eleusis 4th century BCE marble of mourning Demeter.is allied with the cult at Eleusis (and elsewhere in Greece).reflects strong beliefs and commonly accepted mythology.This Boiotian plate shows an early Classical representation of Demeter Roman name – Ceres.Īncient Fertility Goddesses Demeter’s name means “earth mother” (da/ga = earth, meter = mother) Abundant female figurines give evidence for widespread worship of female deities in the prehistoric Mediterranean Demeter, whose worship and mythology are concerned with both crop fertility and the afterlife, may have evolved from such deities Her worship was extremely popular all over the Greek and Roman world. She was unmarried but sexual – if only in that she had a daughter, Persephone, whose father was either Poseidon or Zeus. She was the daughter of Cronus and Rhea, sister of Zeus. ![]() Demeter and Persephone The Earth Mother, The Bride of Death, and The Eleusinian Mysteriesĭemeter of Cnidus Demeter was the goddess of agricultural fertility, especially grains.
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