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DEMETER is the greek goddess of corn,grain and the harvest. She is the goddess of fertility an and is the daughter of CRONUS(the titan of eternal time and the father of six olympian gods) and RHEA and also is the sister of ZEUS(the king of gods). Her symbols are scorch,torch and corn. Demeter lit. "Earth-Mother" from the Doric Dā form of Greek De "Earth" and Meter "Mother". Or possibly "distribution-mother" from the noun of the Indo-European mother-earth dheghom mater, also called simply Δηώ), in Greek mythology, is the Goddess of grain and fertility, the pure. Nourisher of the youth and the green earth, the health-giving cycle of life and death, and preserver of marriage and the sacred law. In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, dated to about the seventh century BC. she is invoked as the "bringer of seasons", a subtle sign that she was worshipped long before she was made one of the Olympians. She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of the Eleusinian Mysteries that also predated the Olympian pantheon. Her Roman equivalent is Ceres. Demeter is easily confused with Gaia or Rhea, and with Cybele. The goddess's epithets reveal the span of her functions in Greek life. Demeter and Kore ("the maiden") are usually invoked as to theo ('"The Two Goddesses"), and they appear in that form in Linear B graffiti at Mycenaean Pylos in pre-classical times. A connection with the goddess-cults of Minoan Crete is quite possible. According to the Athenian rhetorician Isocrates, the greatest gifts which Demeter gave were cereal (also known as corn in modern Britain), which made man different from wild animals; and the Mysteries which give man higher hopes in this life and the afterlife Demeter's emblem is the poppy, a bright red flower that grows among the barleyand corn.

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