mythology meme: gods and goddesses - olympian (2/5) - demetr
D E M E T R was the great Olympian goddess of agriculture, grain, and bread, the prime sustenance of mankind. She also presided over the foremost of the Mystery Cults which promised its intiates the path to a blessed afterlife. Demeter was depicted as a mature woman, often crowned and holding sheafs of wheat and and a torch.
some of the famous myths:
The abduction of her daughter Persephone by Hades, and the great dearth she brought down upon the earth;
The nursing of Demophoon, the young son of King Keleus of Eleusis;
The journeys of Triptolemos, a hero sent by the goddess to instruct mankind in agriculture;
Her assault by Poseidon who forcefully coupled with her in the form of a horse;
The punishment of Erysikhthon who was cursed with an unquenchable hunger by the goddess for cutting down her holy grove.
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