Demeter is the godess of corn, grain, and the harvest in Greek folklore...
she presides also over the sanctity of marriage, the sacred law, and the cycle of life and death.
She is the daughter of Cronus and Rhea.
In her anger at her daughter's loss Demeter laid a curse on the world that caused plants to wither and die, the land became desolate.
Demeter is depicted as a mature woman, often crowned and holding sheafs of wheat and and a torch.
She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of the Eleusinian Mysteries that predated the Olympian pantheon...
After the kidnapping of her daughter Persephone, Demeter blights the earth and won't let the plants grow.
But who can blame her?
Zeus gave Hades permission to "marry" Persephone but whoops! didn't mention it to her or her Mom...
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