Demeter
Greek harvest deity
Demeter is the Greek goddess of the harvest, grain, and agriculture.
Her myth centers on the abduction of her daughter Persephone by Hades—Demeter's grief causing winter, her joy at Persephone's return bringing spring.
The Eleusinian Mysteries, ancient Greece's most important religious rites, were dedicated to her.
Demeter corresponds to the Roman goddess Ceres.
Cereal plant's harvest unit
- wheatCereal crop for flour
- barleyGrain for malt
- cornucopiaAbundance symbol, horn-shaped
- sheafBound bundle of stalks
reaping · threshing · bounty · abundance · sickle · fruitful · yield · crop
Elite international sports competitor
- goddessFemale sacred being
- CeresGoddess of crops and growth
- pantheonAll gods of a religion
- divineOf or from gods
mythical · immortal · worship · temple · priestess · sacred · ancient · Greece
Post-summer cooling period
- springRecoiling metal spiral
- cycleRepeating sequence of events
- dormancySuspended biological activity
- rebirthSpiritual or physical regeneration
equinox · growth · return · descent · renewal · barren · fertile · winter
Greek underworld queen
- HadesGreek afterlife realm
- abductionUnlawful seizure of person
- HomericOf grand, ancient verse
- HymnReligious song of praise
underworld · pomegranate · reunion · motherhood · grief · searching · fasting · disguise
Greek underworld queen
- initiationFormal admission ceremony
- ritesFormal ceremonial acts
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- mysticSeeker of sacred truth
secret · torchlight · hierophant · procession · revelation · sacred · pilgrimage · purification
grain
Cereal plant's harvest unit
- wheatCereal crop for flour
- barleyGrain for malt
- cornucopiaAbundance symbol, horn-shaped
sheaf · reaping · threshing · bounty · abundance · sickle · fruitful · yield · crop · gathering
Olympian
Elite international sports competitor
divine · mythical · immortal · worship · temple · priestess · sacred · ancient · Greece · matronly
autumn
Post-summer cooling period
rebirth · equinox · growth · return · descent · renewal · barren · fertile · winter · bloom
Persephone
Greek underworld queen
Hymn · underworld · pomegranate · reunion · motherhood · grief · searching · fasting · disguise · famine
Persephone
Greek underworld queen
- initiationFormal admission ceremony
- ritesFormal ceremonial acts
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
mystic · secret · torchlight · hierophant · procession · revelation · sacred · pilgrimage · purification · nocturnal
- Greek mythologyZeus, Athena, Apollo, Hera, Poseidon
- Fictional MothersMarge Simpson, Molly Weasley, Morticia Addams, Lily Potter, Martha Kent
- harvest godsCeres, Osiris, Persephone, Saturn, Cronus
- nature deitiesPersephone, Flora, Ceres, Pan, Freya
- deitiesZeus, Odin, Thor, goddess, Ra
- Goddessesgoddess, sun goddess, Gaia, Aphrodite, Isis