The myth of Demeter was one of the most important to the Greeks, this goddess was revered in many places, as she identified herself as the ‘grandmother’ of humanity, above the other goddesses who were initially more important than her, such as Gaia and Reia.
Demeter was the protective goddess of cereals, crops and fertility of the countryside; She was also the guardian of marriage, the sacred law, and the cycles of life and death; she was the daughter of Cronos, father of the time, and Reia, universal mother. The grandparents were Uranus and Gaia, She was part of the main group of Olympic gods.
- In the myth of Demeter.
- The goddess was depicted as a beautiful woman with blond hair.
- The most common version says she had a daughter with her brother Zeus.
- Another version says that this girl was the result of her union with Isio.
- Her nephew.
- Son of Zeus and Electra.
- In any case.
- The goddess has given birth to a beautiful girl who fascinates all who look at her.
“If the bulls and lions could paint, would the gods paint like bulls and lions?-Jen-fans of Colofon-
The myth of Demeter and Persephone tells that the goddess loved her daughter very much, which she called Persephone, the girl ran through the fields fertilizing everything she found in her path and sprouting life where she passed.
Hades, the god of the underworld, looked at her and fell in love with her beauty. Zeus secretly handed her over as his wife to Hades without telling the girl’s mother.
One day, Perséfone was walking in the countryside, as usual. She wandered the lands of Sicily, picking flowers with her daughters, Oceano, her friends. Suddenly the earth shuddered and, from the bottom of the ground, Hades appeared with his car. He raised Perséfone, calling his mother, but it was useless. he kidnapped her and took her with him to his kingdom.
The myth of Demeter says that when the goddess realized that her daughter had disappeared, became angry and turned Oceano’s daughters into mermaids, I wanted to punish them for not protecting Persephone, then wandered for nine days in search of her daughter, without eating. or drink, expressing terrible sorrow for what happened.
After nine days of searching, Hecate, goddess of magic and witchcraft, heard her screams and learned of her intense sadness. The myth of Demeter tells that he took the blonde goddess to Helio, the sun, who saw everything and knew everything. said Demeter’s daughter was in hell.
Desperate because she did not know how to get to hell, Demeter decided not to return to Olympus and instead began wandering aimlessly around Earth, dressed as an old woman and arrived in Eleusis, where she sat by a well.
The daughters of King Celeo and Queen Metanira came to the place to seek water and the goddess, disguised, decided to lie to them.
She said she was from Crete and the pirates kidnapped her and then released her. She said she could do all the household chores and therefore King Celeo received her as a nanny to her youngest son, Demofon. Demeter loved the boy very much and decided to do it. make him immortal; to do so, he had to perform a series of rituals, including burning the child’s skin to the fire.
The child’s mother found her performing this ritual and panicked. The myth says the goddess was forced to reveal who she was. He could not give immortality to the child, but he taught him the secrets of agriculture and passed on his knowledge to men. .
While Demeter was looking for his daughter, he forgot his duties as a crop protector, so the earth began to become barren, everything planted vanished and the men began to starve to death. Concerned about the situation, Zeus decided to reach an agreement with Hades.
They concluded that Persephone would spend six months a year in the underworld with Hades and another six months in Olympus with his mother. While Perséfone is with the dead, the earth produces nothing; when he meets his mother, the fields become fertile, so the seasons are born.
Demeter requested that a service be performed in Eleusis, where it was warmly received. This cult was secret and none of those who practiced it in the future could reveal the details. One of the priestesses was tortured to death to reveal the secrets, but she resisted.
Upon learning of this, the blonde goddess sent a plague to this region and the body of the priestess, named Melissa, caused the bees, great friends of fertility, to go to the fields.