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Demeter in an ancient Greek fresco from Panticapaeum, 1st century Crimea. While travelling far and wide looking for her daughter, Demeter arrived exhausted in Attica. A woman named Misme took her in and offered her a cup of water with pennyroyal and barley groats, for it was a hot day. Demeter, in her thirst, swallowed the drink clumsily.
Dimitrie is the Romanian form of the name Latinized as Demetrius and, less often, anglicized as Demeter. [1] The Russian form of his name was Dmitri Konstantinovich Kantemir ( Дми́трий Константи́нович Кантеми́р ).
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter mentions the "plain of Nysa". [98] The locations of this probably mythical place may simply be conventions to show that a magically distant chthonic land of myth was intended in the remote past. [99] [h] Demeter found and met her daughter in Eleusis, and this is the mythical disguise of what happened in the mysteries ...
The Sanctuary comprised structures sprawled out over twenty miles and divided into three primary structures: the Lower, Middle and Upper Sanctuaries. [2] The archaeological remains of the walled complex span approximately 850 years of religious activity, dating from ca. 600 BC through the mid third century AD.
Married to the Nereid Amphitrite; although, as with many of the male Greek gods, he had many lovers. His symbols include the trident, horse, bull, and dolphin. Demeter: Ceres: Goddess of the harvest, fertility, agriculture, nature and the seasons. She presided over grains and the fertility of the earth. The middle daughter of Cronus and Rhea.
One particularly distinctive epithet she bore was Demeter Melaina (Ancient Greek: Δημητηρ Μελαινα), meaning “Black Demeter” and referring to an Arcadian version of her mythology. The ancient Greek travel writer Pausanias records a myth where, whilst searching for her lost daughter Kore, Demeter was pursued by the god Poseidon .
Demeter was the central deity in fertility rites held in classical Greece. Her rites included celebrating the change of seasons. [ 2 ] Most women's festivals related in some way to woman's proper function as a fertile being (believed to allow women to promote the fertility of crops). [ 3 ]
The Thesmophoria (Ancient Greek: Θεσμοφόρια) was an ancient Greek religious festival, held in honor of the goddess Demeter and her daughter Persephone.It was held annually, mostly around the time that seeds were sown in late autumn – though in some places it was associated with the harvest instead – and celebrated human and agricultural fertility.