Demeter

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Demeter is the goddess of agriculture, grain/bread, and other harvests. She is the daughter of Rhea and Kronos, and the caring mother of Persephone. Her symbols are corn, wheat, snakes, lions, and the cornucopia. Like any other god or goddess, she lives on Mt. Olympus. When she was spotted doing her daily duties she would often appear wearing a dress or toga. Also, Demeter would have been wearing a short veil over her head. Some of her duties as a goddess are to tend and create nature. She also makes erosion happen. She needs to make sure the seasons are coming in time and care for her daughter. Demeter was the quieter one of the Mt. Olympus goddess. She was caring and gentle. Demeter always kept to herself and was down to Earth. Demeter was a loving goddess. The famous myth of Demeter is called “Persephone.” This myth took place on Earth (below where most of the gods live) not on Mt. Olympus. The characters are: Demeter, her daughter Persephone, Zeus, and Hades. Persephone was told to come in for dinner when she was out picking flowers. But then she had to pick one more. Then all the sudden Hades took her to the under world to he his queen. Demeter told Zeus about the what happened and he brought her back. Still Persephone has to go to the underworld for 4 months down with Hades, for the seeds she eat. Demeter refuses to let anything grow during that perioded of time so that is when we have winter. The moral of the story is to do what you are told and right when you are asked to do it. Also this myth explains why we have 4 months of winter.

Demeter has only one well known product named after her. This is called “Demeter Perfume” which can be found at Sears. This item is named after Demeter because she is the goddess of creation of nature and people want to be/ smell as beautiful as the nature. Most of the sents for the perfume is based on a flower, which is the conected to Demeter by her power to creat flowers. Also because they (custumers) want to smell fresh and natural as did Demeter. She helped the customers get an idea of the sent of the product and promote the perfume to bring in more buyers. Demeter has had a small, but large impact on how our products are named for example, Demeter Perfume.  10 Interesting Facts on Demeter   Zeus Persephone Poseidon
 * 1) Name means, “Doorway of the mysterious feminie.”
 * 2) Roman name, “Ceres”
 * 3) Weakness: depression
 * 4) Sacred animals: pigs, snakes [[image:http://www.e-know.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/252050.jpg width="500" height="331" align="right"]]
 * 5) <span style="color: #42ae42; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 70%;">Sacred bird: screech owl
 * 6) <span style="color: #42ae42; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 70%; text-align: left;">Temple is in Eleusis
 * 7) <span style="color: #42ae42; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 70%;">Strength: loving mother, persistence
 * 8) <span style="color: #42ae42; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 70%;">Married to Zeus but had an affair with Iason
 * 9) <span style="color: #42ae42; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 70%;">Connected to erosion and creation of nature
 * 10) <span style="color: #42ae42; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 70%; text-align: left;">Mysteries of Eleusis: biggest Demeter Selebration

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