ALL ABOUT DEMETER

• Demeter means “barley mother.”

• Another name for her is Ceres.

• Zeus was very fond of her.• Demeter is the goddess of

plants and harvest.

PERSEPHONE’S STORY

Persephone is Demeter's daughter.

Persephone was tending to her gardens. While tending to

her gardens she was abducted by Hades. She was held in

the underworld. If you eat in the underworld you have to

stay there forever. In the underworld Persephone only ate

six pomegranate seeds. Zeus decreed that she should

stay there six months of the year. That is where we get

seasons.

MORE ABOUT DEMETER

Demeter’s children were Persephone, Dionysus,

Despoena, Arion, Plutus, Philomelus, and Eubulus.

Demeter is pictured as a mature motherly figure.

Demeter is the goddess who taught mankind about

agriculture.

Demeter’s emblem is the poppy, a bright red flower

that grows among the barley.

DEMETER

Demeter was the “Corn Mother” who blessed the

harvest.

The attributes of Demeter are a bundle of grain, a

scepter, a torch, and a sacrificial bowl.

Demeter was the goddess of fertility, grain, and

agriculture.