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modern gods → demeter
humans have become their own worst enemy. demeter works hard to counteract the harmful effects they’ve had on the planet, but she can only do so much on her own. she hates that agriculture has become a business, and that people are hurt in the process. she fights tooth and nail to protect the small farms from vanishing completely.
Demeter was the goddess of corn, grain, and the harvest. She was the daughter of Cronus and Rhea. It was believed that Demeter made the crops grow each year; thus the first loaf of bread made from the annual harvest was offered to her. She was the goddess of the earth, of agriculture, and of fertility in general.
THE TWELVE OLYMPIANS: demeter.
in ancient greek religion and greek mythology, demeter is the goddess of the harvest, who presided over grains and the fertility of the earth. her cult titles include sito, “she of the grain”, as the giver of food or grain and thesmophoros, “law-bringer,” as a mark of the civilized existence of agricultural society. though demeter is often described simply as the goddess of the harvest, she presided also over the sacred law, and the cycle of life and death.
smile like sun and teeth like winter
Modern Greek mythology: Persephone wears a ‘winter is coming’ shirt. Demeter is not amused.
the back says “and I will be too”
it may be over for us, but seasons change, oh they change for a reason.
demeter and persephone.
Modern Greek mythology: Persephone wears a ‘winter is coming’ shirt. Demeter is not amused.
MYTHOLOGY MEME : {4/9} greek deities → Demeter (Δημήτηρ)
Bitter pain seized her heart, and she rent the covering upon her divine hair with her dear hands: her dark cloak she cast down from both her shoulders and sped, like a wild-bird, over the firm land and yielding sea, seeking her child. But no one would tell her the truth, neither god nor mortal men; and of the birds of omen none came with true news for her. Then for nine days queenly Deo wandered over the earth with flaming torches in her hands, so grieved that she never tasted ambrosia and the sweet draught of nectar, nor sprinkled her body with water. But when the tenth enlightening dawn had come, Hecate, with a torch in her hands, met her, and spoke to her and told her news: “Queenly Demeter, bringer of seasons and giver of good gifts, what god of heaven or what mortal man has rapt away Persephone and pierced with sorrow your dear heart? For I heard her voice, yet saw not with my eyes who it was. But I tell you truly and shortly all I know.” - Homeric Hymn to Demeter
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“Bitter pain seized Demeter’s heart, and she rent the covering upon her divine hair with her dear hands: her dark cloak she cast down from both her shoulders and sped, like a wild-bird, over the firm land and yielding sea, seeking her child. But no one would tell her the truth, neither god nor mortal man; and of the birds of omen none came with true news for her.”
Rocks and Water – Deb Talan | Your bones – Of Monsters and Men | Wilderland - Anaïs Mitchell | Cold as it Gets – Patty Griffin | Mother Protect – Niki & The Dove | Porcelain – Red Hot Chili Peppers | What the Water Gave Me – Florence + The Machine | Frozen Heart – Emily Jane White | Path – Apocalyptica | Weight of Water – Low |
