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The following is a family tree of gods, goddesses, ... Demeter: Hestia [d] Hera: Prometheus: Epimetheus: ... Family tree of the Greek gods.
In Elis she was called Demeter-Chamyne (goddess of the ground), [35] in an old chthonic cult associated with the descent to Hades. At Levadia the goddess was known as Demeter-Europa and she was associated with Trophonius, an old divinity of the underworld. The oracle of Trophonius was famous in the antiquity. [51]
He had many affairs with goddesses and mortals, such as his sister Demeter and Leto, mortals Leda and Alcmene, and more. [27] His symbols include the thunderbolt, eagle, oak tree, bull, scepter, and scales. Hera: Juno: Queen of the gods and the goddess of marriage, women, childbirth and family. The youngest daughter of Cronus and Rhea.
Goddess of grain, agriculture, harvest, growth, and nourishment. Demeter, whose Roman counterpart is Ceres, is a daughter of Cronus and Rhea, and was swallowed and then regurgitated by her father. She is a sister of Zeus, by whom she bore Persephone, who is also known as Kore, i.e. "the girl."
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter mentions the "plain of Nysa". [93] 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. [94] [h] Demeter found and met her daughter in Eleusis, and this is the mythical disguise of what happened in the mysteries ...
The goddess Demeter joined with the mortal Iasion to produce Plutus. In addition to Semele, the goddess Harmonia and the mortal Cadmus also produced Ino , Agave , Autonoe and Polydorus . Eos (Dawn) with the mortal Tithonus , produced the hero Memnon , and Emathion , and with Cephalus , produced Phaethon .
Europa does not seem to have been venerated directly in cult anywhere in classical Greece, [note 8] but at Lebadaea in Boeotia, Pausanias noted in the 2nd century AD that Europa was the epithet of Demeter—"Demeter whom they surname Europa and say was the nurse of Trophonios"—among the Olympians who were addressed by seekers at the cave ...
As a gift to Celeus, because of his hospitality, Demeter planned to make Demophon a god by anointing and coating him with ambrosia, breathing gently upon him while holding him in her arms and bosom, and making him immortal by burning his mortal spirit away in the family's hearth every night. She put him in the fire at night like a firebrand or ...