Demeter Goddess Of Harvest
Demeter is called the goddess of earth and grain and she was the sister of Zeus. Demeter was betrayed by her brother Zeus and she leaves to go among the men from Mt. Olympus. Although it is birth right of Demeter to have a throne on the Olympus sometimes she is not mentioned as an Olympian. This did not lessen the importance of Demeter in the eyes of the Romans and the Greeks, and she was worshipped by them. |
Demeter did not have a stressed relationship with Zeus because he fathered her daughter, Persephone.
Persephone had grown up into beautiful woman who played with goddesses on the Mount Aetna in Sicily. They gathered the flowers and smelled them on Mt. Aetna. She saw a narcissus on one day and to have a good look at it she plucked and a rift was formed as it was taken from the earth.
Demeter never really watched her daughter because she thought that Artemis, Athena and Aphrodite were there to watch her. But when she put attention on her she already vanished.
In search of her daughter, Demeter goes around for nine nights and days by putting out her frustration and torching earth. Goddess Hekate tells Demeter that she heard the cries of Persephone but did not see anything. Then she asks the sun god, Helios because he known what happens on the earth in the day time. And he says that Zeus was given to “the invisible” as his bride and Hades had taken her to home in the Underworld.
Demeter is the goddess who created winter, when her daughter was missing demeter mourned and she did not do her job and growth stopped which was called winter.
Persephone made 2 compromises the first is that she will be with husband for half year and with mother for half year. The second was that when Demeter was with Persephone the crops flourished and when she wasn’t there it was winter.
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