Demeter
MythologyGreek
RoleGoddess of the harvest
About Demeter
Goddess of grain and agriculture. When Hades took her daughter Persephone, her grief froze the earth barren until a compromise returned the girl each spring. Her mysteries at Eleusis ran in secret for over a thousand years. The Roman name Ceres gives us the word cereal.
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