Demeter - goddess of harvest and fertility.
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Demeter, Fair-Haired Earth Goddess
The Greek goddess of agriculture, the pure nourisher of youth and the green earth, the health-giving cycle of life and death, and preserver of marriage and the sacred law. She is invoked as the "bringer of seasons" in the Homeric hymn, a subtle sign that she was worshiped long before she was made one of the Olympians
Demeter is the fair haired earth goddess who blesses all phases of the harvest. She walks the furrowed fields dressed in green and displays her moods with feast and famine.
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Of Demeter, the lovely haired and august goddess, and of her daughter, the fair Persephone, I begin to sing. ~~ Homeric Hymn to Demeter
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Photo of Demeter
State Hermitage Museum

Museum Collection: State Hermitage Museum,
St Petersburg, Russia
Class: Free-standing statue
Material: Marble
Demeter stands holding sheafs of wheat in one hand, and a fruiting cornucopia in the other. She is crowned with a wreath of fruit.
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The story of the mother-and-daughter goddesses Demeter and Persephone has seized the imagination of people in every age, from ancient times to the present. Considered today by many to be the archetypal myth for women, it touches on timeless themes in every life, such as the male-female relationship, love between women, initiations into puberty and old age, the mother-daughter bond, death, and ecological renewal. Christine Downing has combined essays, prose, poetry, and even performance art with her own insightful commentary to shed new light on the myth's ancient meanings and to offer new insights in its implications for contemporary men and women. ~~Amazon
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Orphic Hymn 40 to Demeter
(trans. Taylor) (Greek hymns C3rd B.C. to 2nd A.D.) :

Eleusinian Demeter & Plutus, Apulian red-figure
loutrophoros C4th B.C., The J. Paul Getty Museum
"To Demeter Eleusinia. O universal mother, Deo famed, august, the source of wealth, and various named: great nurse, all-bounteous, blessed and divine, who joyest in peace; to nourish corn is thine.
Goddess of seed, of fruits abundant, fair, harvest and threshing are thy constant care.
Lovely delightful queen, by all desired, who dwellest in Eleusis' holy vales retired.
Nurse of all mortals, who benignant mind first ploughing oxen to the yoke confined; and gave to men what nature's wants require, with plenteous means of bliss, which all desire. In verdure flourishing, in glory bright, assessor of great Bromios [Dionysos] bearing light : rejoicing in the reapers' sickles, kind, whose nature lucid, earthly, pure, we find.
Prolific, venerable, nurse divine, thy daughter loving, holy Koure [Persephone].
A car with Drakones yoked 'tis thine to guide, and, orgies singing, round thy throne to ride.
Only-begotten, much-producing queen, all flowers are thine, and fruits of lovely green.
Bright Goddess, come, with summer's rich increase swelling and pregnant, leading smiling peace; come with fair concord and imperial health, and join with these a needful store of wealth."
"She is invoked as the "bringer of seasons", a subtle sign that she was worshipped long before she was made one of the Olympians."
Temple of Demeter Kriti, Greece
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Demeter
Flickr Photo by Zaqarbal

Statue of Demeter of the "Madrid-Capitol" type, at the Prado Museum (Madrid, Spain). Roman copy, sculpted in marble in the early 3rd century CE, of a Greek original made for the Eleusis sanctuary circa 425-420 BC. Head and arms are Baroque additions.
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The internationally acclaimed Jungian analyst and cantadora (keeper of the old stories), Clarissa Pinkola Estes, has a mesmerizing way of storytelling. Included in this collection of stories, she gives insight into the myth of Demeter and Persephone and how this myth relates to women of today. I've listened to it over and over and always pick up a new glimmpse into the wild woman arhetype.
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Demeter is the Greek goddess of grain, and her daughter Persephone is Spring personified. Persephone's husband is Hades, god of the underworld, and she is compelled to spend part of each year with him. The time she spends with him is winter.
In Orphic theology, Demeter is the - Mircea Eliade "From Primitives to Zen"
- Demeter and the founding of Eleusinian Mysteries from Mircea Eliade's "From Primitives to Zen"('The Homeric Hymns': To Demeter,11, 185-299)Hades has carried off Demeter's daughter, Kore. After vainly searching for her, Demeter comes to Eleusis, in disguise as an old woman, and there is received into the house of King Celeus.Soon they came to the house of heaven-nurtured Celeus and went thro
"She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of the Eleusinian Mysteries that also predated the Olympian pantheon."
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As an Art History student, I learned about Demeter through the art of Ancient Greece. I am captivated by the myth and mythology.
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