Demeter

Demeter is the goddess of the earth, wheat, flowers and plants. Faith in Demeter as the goddess of wheat, is thriving in areas where producing a large amount of wheat such as Eleusis rural, Sicily, Crete, Peloponnese peninsula and Thrace further.

　Persephone who is the wife of Hades, was born from the love of Demeter and Zeus. Persephone is the only daughter of Demeter and grow wrapped in happiness, the other children of the king of Olympus,and she had sent the day-to-day fun in the other children of the king of Olympus that is Athena and Artemis. However, Hades is the god of the underworld her uncle love her. Hades who appeared from under the ground, Hades took her away to the underworld when Persephone is picking daffodils. Demeter heard the screams and rushed to the place of Persephone in a hurry, but it was too late. Demeter was haggardness and wandering all over the world in search of her daughter. She finally knew the kidnapper after 10 days. Demeter resolves to abandon the status of goddess and not return to the Olympus until her daughter to come her. She is the god of grain, so weather is turned and grain didn't grow. Zeus was in trouble and he persuades her. Zeus had no choice, so he asked Hades to let Persephone go back. However, Hades didn't want to miss her. So, he offered pomegranate to her. She ate four drops of the 12 drops were among the fruit of the pomegranate. After Persephone returned to Demeter, but tell the mother that she had to eat the pomegranate of the underworld. Because there was a deal of gods that belong to the underworld, those who ate the food of the underworld, must belong to the underworld she. Demeter opposed that she live in the underworld again, Demeter was not able to overturn the arrangement of the gods. Then, the number of pomegranate ate only live in the underworld, is the be spending the underworld 1/3 of the year, she performed in married under the Hades as queen of the underworld. And only time her daughter are in the underworld, Demeter began to stop bringing the crop on the ground. That is the beginning of the season that this winter. It is also the time when Persephone returns to the ground the Demeter’s joy is overflowing on the ground. It is this season that spring.

 

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