Demeter

​ = = = Demeter: Goddess of Agriculture and Fertility ​ =



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__Lineage__ Daughter of Cronus and Rhea Sister of the goddesses Hera and Hestia and the gods Poseidon, Hades and Zeus

__Relationships__ Mother of Persephone (with Zeus) and the foals Arion and Pegasus (with Poseidon)

__Accessories__ Demeter's symbolic attributes are the earth and the torch Sacred animals include the snake and the pig

__ The capture of Persephone and subsequent winter __ Hades captured Persephone and took her to the underworld to be his bride; Demeter looked far and wide for her daughter until she was finally told by Helios that Hades had captured Persephone and that Zeus had sanctioned the act. A distraught Demeter took the shape of an elderly woman and roamed the Earth, shunning the society of the Gods. While she was gone, the crops failed and the earth was threatened with famine. Zeus tried to reconcile with Demeter and agreed that Persephone should be returned to her. However, Hades had gotten Persephone to eat some pomegranate seeds while she was with him, binding her to the Underworld for at least part of the year. Therefore, while Persephone was returned to her mother, she was still required to spend a third of the year in the Underworld with her husband, Hades. During this time, Demeter mourns her daughter's absense and there are no crops.

=Modern Day Demeter =

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 The modern day Demeter would be a elderly woman, the stereotypical grandmother, who wears the lines of her life around her eyes. Although beautiful, there is a sadness about her when she is not in the presence of her daughter. The modern day Demeter is wise and worldly, living on a farm raising her crops. =====