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Title: Demeter


1
Demeter
  • By Savannah Crockett
  • October 2004
  • Literature 9 period

2
God like Information
  • In Roman culture she is called Ceres
  • She is an Olympian god
  • She has a daughter!!! Who is. Persephone!!!
  • Amy can tell you more about Persephone!!!
  • She was the god of grain and Fertility!!!

3
And her Goddess like Powers
  • Demeter was the goddess of harvest, so she
    controlled the peoples harvest. She was thought
    to be the most generous god or goddess. She
    sometimes mettled in human affairs that were to
    her liking. She was very protected of her
    daughter.

4
More God like Information
  • Demeter had symbols in the ancient culture in
    Greece.
  • Scepter
  • Torch
  • and Corn (grain)
  • Her Sacred animal is the Pig

5
Info that Might interest u!!!
  • Guess what!!! Demeter was the goddess of grain
    and agriculture or fertility but she was closely
    related to human fertility!!!

6
Myth
  • In one myth Hates stole Demeter's daughter and
    married her. Demeter was very sad and made
    winter.

7
Godly Relations
  • The only relation that was a fact was that
    Zeus and Demeter had Persephone.

Zeus
Demeter
Persephone
8
Demeter myths
  • There are many myths that involve Demeter
  • One involves Persephone
  • And one involves her having an affair with a
    mortal man and she has a son.

9
Festivals
  • There are festivals for Demeter here are some I
    found
  • Eleusinian Mysteries sacred events
  • Thesemophiafertility festival, participants
    exclusively women!!
  • Elesis isnt a festival but is where the
    Eleusinian Mysteries took place.

10
Sources
  • www.hort.purdue.edu/.../images/large/corn.jpg
    (corn pic)
  • www.survivor-info.com/downloads/torch.jpg (torch)
  • (scepter)
  • www.loggia.com/myth/gallerydemeter.html (Demeter)
  • www.google.com was how I got the pictures except
    for that Demeter picture
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