MY GREEK WORD

CEREAL

• The dictionary definition for cereal is....
• 1.A grain used for food , for example wheat, maize or rye....

SECOND DEFINITON

• 2. A breakfast food made from roasted grain, typically eaten with milk...
• "A bowl of cereal"

HOW WE GET CEREAL

• The fairy Ceres.
• Was the harvest fairy.
• Gone from day til night.

MORE ABOUT CERES

• She had a daughter Persephone.
• She loved her doughter very much.
• Now she told her daughter not to stray to far from home.

HOW PERSEPHONE LEFT

• Persephone usually stayed home and made flower chains.
• But one day she picked all the flowers form the garden.
• So she went to find more and left home.

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• He took her underground to his kingdom.
• He had a feast for her and everything but she would not eat.

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• She just wandered around wanting to see her mom again
• The king finally said she could go home but first she had to eat
• So she ate just six pomegranate seeds
• Now while she was gone her mom would not let anything grow.

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• So she ate and went back home to her mother
• Her mother was so happy to see her daughter. She asked did you eat anything ?
• She said I ate just 6 pomegranate seeds

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• Ceres immediately got sad.
• She said that Persephone now had to stay with the king for 6 months out of the year.
• So that is how we get the word cereal and how we have seasons according to Greek mythology.

CERES

PERSEPHONE