DEMETER

DEMETER THE GOD OF AGRICULTURE

• She brings grain and fertility to the earth
• she presided also over the sanctity of marriage,
• the sacred law, and the cycle of life and death.

EARLY STORY

• Demeter on of the greatest divinities of the Greeks
• She was the daughter of Cronus and Rhea
• Her brothers where posited and Zeus
• Her sisters were hestia, Hera, aides
• The other children of Cronus was devoured by her father

CITYS

• DEMETER HAD HELPED PRODUCE ALL OF THESE CITYS
• Attika
• Megaris
• Aigina
• Korinthia

CITYS CONT.

• Sikyonia
• Argolis
• She didn't have one city devoted to her
• All these city's she helped develop
• By helping the people survive in them and getting them started

MAJOR STORY

• Demeter had a daughter Persephone
• Hades god of the underworld took her
• Demeter asked Zeus a brother of hades
• To return Persephone
• He agreed to let her return if she had not

MAJOR STORY CONT.

• Eaten while with hades
• Since she had eaten 6 pomegranate seeds
• Zeus determined that she had to spend
• 6 months with her mother and 6 with hades

CONT.

• The 6 months she spent with her mom
• We're in the spring threw summer
• She walked the earth with her mom
• The 6 months she spent with hades were
• In the fall threw winter and she returned to the underworld

CONT.

• The pomegranate is still a
• Potent symbol of death and renewal
• "The exclusive worship of the goddess
• Success is our national disease"
• William James