Demeter

DEMETER
Demeter was the goddess of many things. Here are a few: > Favour: Bountiful harvest; Fertile earth; > Curse: Crop failure; Hunger and Starvation
 * AGRICULTURE - Use of: Farmers; Ploughing, Sowing and Harvesting grain;Vegetable-gardens

> Favour: Bountiful harvest
 * HORTICULTURE-Use of: Fruit-orchards


 * MILLING-Use of: Flour-mills; Flour-stores[[image:http://www.energyenhancement.org/Demeter.gif width="272" height="391" align="right"]][[image:http://i2.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/590/draft_lens1282830module14103902photo_1233737100Demeter.jpg width="232" height="384" align="right"]]


 * BREAD-Use of: Flour-mills; Flour-stores


 * PIG-FARMING-Use of: Pig-farming


 * MOTHERHOOD-Use of: Mothers; Motherly devotion; Wet-nurses

> Favour: Passage to paradise in death
 * THE BLESSED AFTERLIFE- Use of: Mystery religion (passage to a blessed afterlife)

Demeter was the second eldest of the gods. She had two divine lovers: Zeus and Poseidon. Demeter is the goddess of fertility and agriculture. She taught people how to sow and plough and that is why she was very popular with the rural population. She is the daughter of Cronus and Rhea and sister of Zeus by whom she became the mother of Persephone. When Persephone was abducted by Hades, the lord of the underworld, Demeter looked around the earth to find her. During that time nothing was growing on earth. Then, Zeus sent Hermes to the underworld to bring Persephone back and Hades agreed but when the she was leaving the he gave her a pomegranate and when she ate it she was bound to spend a third of the year with her husband in the infernal regions. For that reason, Demeter lets the earth grow only during the summer that her daughter is with her. The dying and blossoming of nature was connected to Demeter. - ﻿Work Cited: [] [] [] []