- CERES - conventional attributes of the Olympian gods including superhuman Did you know? strength, stamina and vitality. She also has Her virgin daughter PERSEPHONE various mystical power was abducted by the god of the primarily to control the underworld, HADES, and Demeter harvesting of plants especially, but not endlessly searched for her, limited, to grain. It has preoccupied with loss and grief. The been theorized that her seasons halted and living things emotions are in tune to stopped growing and died. At this point, the harvest and that they are bountiful when ZEUS had to intervene and send his she is happy, and that messenger HERMES to the underworld drought occurs when to bring Persephone back and prevent she unhappy. She can the extinction of all life on Earth. also cross dimensional barriers between worlds and alter her form to Hades agreed to Persephone’s relief appear as an elderly old but gave her a pomegranate as she woman. She can invoke left. When she ate the pomegranate curses as when she seeds, she was bound to him for one cursed King Erysichthon in ancient times with third of the year, either the dry insatiable hunger and Mediterranean summer, when plant endow mystical ability life is threatened by drought, or the in sorcerers and mystics autumn and winter. that know how to call upon her such as Clea. Lorraine Ianne C. Almazora 10-Genesis • Demeter was the daughter of • She gave birth to a flying and Cronos and Rhea. talking horse named Arion. • She was the goddess of harvest • As a reward to a kind man, she and fertility. tried to make his baby immortal • She had one daughter, by placing him in a fire. The Persephone; Zeus was mother, however, caught her Persephone’s father. in the act and pulled the baby • Only women attended the from the fire. Thesmophoria, a fertility • She is often pictured with festival held in honor of flaming torches because she Demeter. used these in her search for • Demeter was granted her daughter. four months per year with • She carried a long golden Persephone; her daughter sword in battle which earned would remain with Hades for her the nickname “Lady of the the remaining months. Golden Blade.” • In ancient art, Demeter was • Animals that were sacred to pictured wearing a wreath Demeter included the serpent, made of ears of corn. gecko, and pig.
