Demeter is the Greek goddess of the harvest, agriculture, fertility, and sacred law. She is responsible for making crops grow each year. One of her most famous stories involves her daughter Persephone being abducted by Hades, god of the underworld. In response, Demeter withheld harvests from humankind until Persephone was returned. However, since Persephone ate six pomegranate seeds in the underworld, she must spend six months there and six months with her mother, explaining the seasons. These myths teach about the meaning of life, human nature, and what makes a great story with emotional characters and impactful events.

1. DEMETER
By Jaden

2. What does Demeter's Name Mean?
• Demeter’s name means, barley mother or
mother-earth.
• Greek Name: Demeter
• Roman Name: Ceres
• Greek Name: Δημητηρ

3. • Name: Demeter
• God or (Goddess).
• Occupation: Goddess of Agriculture.
• Enemies: Ascalaphus, Pluto, Typhon
• Relatives: Cronus (Father),
• Rea (Mother),
• Tethys, Themis, Phoebe, Mnemosyne, Dione (Aunts)
• Oceanus, Japet, Hyperion, Coeus, Crius, Ophion (Uncles)
• Zues, Neptune, Pluto (Brothers)
• Vesta, Hera, (Sisters)
• Chiron half Brother)
Plute (half Sister)
• Persephone, Despoena (Daughters)
• Arion, plutus, Pilomelas (Sons)
Hercules, Apollo, Ares, Hephaestus, Hermes, Dionysus (Nephews)
Artemis, Athena, Venus, Eileithyia, Hebe, Helen, Discord (Nieces)
Helios Eos, Selene, Leto, Asteria, Pallas, Perses, Astraeus, Metis,
Calypso, Prometheus, Eprimetheus, Menoetius (Cousins)

4. What did Demeter look like?
• Demeter wears a crown with pieces of wheat
on it with a torch. She wears a white top with
a white skirt.

5. Demeter
• Demeter is the Goddess of corn, grain, and the
harvest. She is the daughter of Cronus and
Rhea. Demeter is the one that makes the
crops grow each year. The first loaf of bread
from the harvest is given to her. Demeter is
the goddess of the earth, agriculture, and of
fertility in general. Very special to her are
livestock and agricultural products, the poppy,
narcissus and the crane.

6. Why is Demeter Famous?
• Demeter is famous because she was the
goddess that was in charge of agriculture, she
is also famous because her daughter,
Persephone, went into the underworld with
Hades.

7. A famous Story about Demeter.
• Demeter was the Greek goddess of grain, the harvest, and possibly
the grape and hence wine. Hades, god of the underworld, abducted
her daughter Persephone. Demeter asked Zeus, a brother of Hades,
to return Persephone. When Zeus refused, Demeter withheld the
harvest from man until Zeus relented. He agreed to allow
Persephone’s return if she had not eaten while with Hades.
However, since Persephone had eaten 6 pomegranate seeds in the
underworld, Zeus determined that she would spend 6 months with
her mother and 6 months with Hades. This is the mythic origin of
the six months of spring and summer when Persephone walks the
earth with her mother and the 6 months of fall and winter when
Persephone must return to the underworld. The pomegranate is
still for many a potent symbol of death and renewal. The Elysian
Mysteries were public celebrations of the myth of Demeter and
Persephone.

8. What do these stories teach us about
the meaning of life?
• They teach us about meaning of life, because
when Demeter starved everyone to get her
daughter back, the bad people should have
realized it hurts and they shouldn't take the
life from others.

9. What makes a great story?
• A great story is a story that has character
emotional feelings, and something to talk
about, like Demeter was sad that her daughter
was taken to the underworld.

10. What do these story's teach us about
human nature?
• They teach us that we aren't the only ones
who can make up stories, also that there is
more than us alive out there.

11. Bibliography
• http://www.theoi.com/Olympios/Demeter.ht
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• http://www.theoi.com/Summary/Demeter.ht
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• http://www.mysticunicorn.com/GRE-
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