Myths About Greek Goddess Demeter
Demeter is called the goddess of grain, agriculture and fertility. She is depicted as responsible mother. She is a goddess who was responsible to teach the humans about agriculture and she is also responsible for the creation of winter. Demeter can be seen with her daughter most of the times. |
Demeter was the offspring of the Rhea and Cronus who were titans. She was also the sister of gods Poseidon, Zeus and Hades, and goddesses Hera and Hestia.
Although Demeter was not married, she had children. She had a daughter named Persephone, also called Kore, whose father was Zeus, the king of gods.
Demeter was ignorant about Zeus promising to Hades, the god of the Underworld that Persephone will be his bride one day.
Once when Persephone was out with her friends, she plucked a flower from the earth and Hades held her hand and snatched her to the underworld. When Demeter went in search of Persephone she got to know that Zeus married her daughter to Hades. During the search she did not do her job and this turned out to be winter. At last Persephone accepted that she will stay with her mother for 6 months and other 6 months with her husband. When she stayed with her mother crops flourished.
It is believed that she loved Iasion and that they married secretly in the island of Crete. They laid 3 times and Demeter delivered Plutus, a Greek god, and Philomenas, a demi-god. Plutus was the god of earthly wealth, while Philomenas invented plough.
It is a myth that Zeus took the life of Iasion for sleeping with goddess Demeter and Zeus seduced Demeter and the result was birth of Persephone.
Poseidon, the god of seas, asked Demeter to lay with him so that the earth will get fertile. Demeter became a mare to avoid him, but the god became a stallion and seduced her. Their union resulted in the birth of Arion, the god of horses, and Despoena, the goddess of fruit.
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