Demeter

For other meanins, see Demeter (disambiguation).

In auncient Greek releegion an meeth, Demeter (/diˈmiːtər/; Attic Δημήτηρ Dēmētēr. Doric Δαμάτηρ Dāmātēr) is the goddess o the hairst, who presidit ower grains an the growthiness o the yird. Her cult titles include Sito (σίτος: wheat) as the giver o fuid or corn/grain^[1] an Thesmophoros (θεσμός, thesmos: divine order, unwritten law) as a merk o the ceevilisit existence o agricultural society.^[2]

Demeter
Goddess o the harvest an growthiness o the yird
Statue o Demeter. Roman copy frae a Greek oreeginal made for the Eleusis sanctuar circa 425-420 BC.
Abode	Olympus
Personal Information
Consort	Several, see text
Childer	see belaw
Parents	Cronus an Rhea
Siblins	Hestia, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, Zeus
Roman equivalent	Ceres

Tho Demeter is aften describit simply as the goddess o the hairst, she presidit ower the sanctity o marriage an aw, the saucrit law, an the cycle o life an daith. She an her dochter Persephone wur the central figurs o the Eleusinian Meesteries that predatit the Olympian pantheon. In the Linear B Mycenean Greek tablets o circa 1400-1200 BC foond at Pylos, the "twa mistresses an the keeng" mey be relatit wi Demeter, Persephone an Poseidon.^[3][4] Her Roman equivalent is Ceres.

Consorts an childer

1. Zeus
   1. Persephone
2. Poseidon
   1. Despoina
   2. Arion
3. Iasion
   1. Plutus
   2. Philomelus
4. Karmanor
   1. Eubuleus
   2. Chrysothemis
5. Triptolemus
   1. Amphitheus I
6. Oceanus
   1. Dmia^[5]

See an aw

• Despoina
• Poppy goddess
• Potnia
• Hades