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demeter
price: $ 95 catalog # GG6 - Dem |
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Demeter, daughter of Chronus and Rhea, was the Goddess of Agriculture (sometimes specifically Goddess of Corn). The major myth associated with her deals with her only daughter Persephone, the maiden of the spring. Persephone was abducted by Hades, who fell in love with her. Demeter was distraught. She withheld her gifts from the earth and the world fell into an unending winter. |
Finally Hades was persuaded to release Persephone, but not until after she had eaten four pomegranate seeds, thus ensuring that she would be forced to return to the underworld for four months of the year. When Persephone returns to Demeter, her mother allows spring to bloom, but while she is in the underworld, her mother mourns and the world falls into winter. |
This Demeter has a simple, rounded facial structure, to emphasize both her maternal and her rural nature. Her dace is framed with a crown of wheat, berries, and other manifestations of her bounty. |
