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According to Kerényi, "It seems probable that the Great Mother Goddess who bore the names Rhea and Demeter, brought the poppy with her from her Cretan cult to Eleusis and it is almost certain that in the Cretan cult sphere opium was prepared from poppies."
Poppies were mentioned in Greco-Roman myths as offerings to the dead. [5] Robert Graves believed that a second meaning of the depiction and use of poppies in the Greco-Roman myths is the symbolism of the bright scarlet colour as signifying the promise of resurrection after death [6] and that the poppy was the emblem of the goddess Demeter.
In Greek mythology, Mecon (in Ancient Greek Μήκων, Mḗkо̄n, meaning "poppy"), also spelled Mekon, was a beautiful [1] young Athenian man, loved by the goddess Demeter who was transformed into a poppy. [2]
A votive plaque known as the Ninnion Tablet depicting elements of the Eleusinian Mysteries, discovered in the sanctuary at Eleusis (mid-4th century BC). The Eleusinian Mysteries (Greek: Ἐλευσίνια Μυστήρια, romanized: Eleusínia Mystḗria) were initiations held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based at the Panhellenic Sanctuary of Eleusis in ancient Greece.
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. Also the lover of Zeus and Poseidon, and the mother of Persephone, Despoine, Arion. Her symbols include the poppy, wheat, torch, cornucopia, and pig. Apollo: Apollo
The worship of Demeter is well attested across Arcadia, through various epithets and sanctuaries. 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.
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The votive relief to Isis-Demeter is a Hellenistic marble sculpture discovered in the archaeological site of Dion in Macedonia, Greece. Made during the late third or early second century BC, it depicts the Egyptian goddess Isis with syncretic features of Demeter, the Greek goddess of agriculture and fertility. It was offered to Isis by a couple ...