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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.
Indonesia portal Mythology portal: Indonesia is home to over 600 ethnic groups, [1] some who have their own belief system and mythology.
The mythology of Indonesia is very diverse, the Indonesian people consisting of hundreds of ethnic groups, each with their own myths and legends that explain the origin of their people, the tales of their ancestors and the demons or deities in their belief systems. The tendency to syncretize by overlying older traditions with newer foreign ...
About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute Help; ... Demeter is the ancient Greek goddess of agriculture, ... (mythology) (2 C, 23 P) Children of Demeter ...
The substratum of Proto-Indo-European mythology is animistic. [103] [151] This native animism is still reflected in the Indo-European daughter cultures. [152] [153] [154] In Norse mythology the Vættir are for instance reflexes of the native animistic nature spirits and deities.
Forestalled in making Demophon immortal, Demeter chose to teach Triptolemus (Demophon's elder brother) the art of agriculture; from him the rest of Greece learned to plant and reap crops. He flew across the land on a dragon -drawn chariot while Demeter and Persephone cared for him and helped him complete his mission of educating the whole of ...
According to ancient Greek mythology, Kore (Ancient Greek: κόρη), whose name translates to "Maiden", was the first born daughter of Demeter. Following the abduction of Kore by the Underworld God, Hades, Demeter went in desperate search for her lost daughter, who would later come to be known as Persephone (Ancient Greek: Περσεφονη ...
[5] [45] The unions of Zeus with Semele and Demeter is similarly associated with fertility and growth in Greek mythology. [45] According to Jackson, however, Dʰéǵʰōm is "a more fitting partner of Perk w unos than of Dyēus", since the former is commonly associated with fructifying rains as a weather god. [3]