Demeter | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-04

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00:01:02 1 Etymology
00:03:24 2 Iconography
00:04:34 3 Description
00:04:43 3.1 As goddess of agriculture
00:05:57 3.2 As an earth and underworld goddess
00:07:22 3.3 As a poppy goddess
00:08:33 3.4 Other functions and titles
00:11:15 4 Worship
00:11:23 4.1 In Crete
00:12:42 4.2 On the Greek mainland
00:14:07 4.3 Festivals
00:14:36 4.4 Conflation with other goddesses
00:18:07 5 Mythology
00:18:16 5.1 Family and consorts
00:21:54 5.2 Demeter and Persephone
00:24:22 5.3 Demeter at Eleusis
00:25:24 5.4 Demeter and Iasion
00:26:36 5.5 Demeter and Poseidon
00:29:29 5.6 Demeter and Erysichthon
00:30:47 6 See also



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In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Demeter (; Attic: Δημήτηρ Dēmḗtēr, pronounced [dɛːmɛ́ːtɛːr]; Doric: Δαμάτηρ Dāmā́tēr) is the goddess of the harvest and agriculture, presiding over grains and the fertility of the earth. Her cult titles include Sito (Σιτώ), "she of the Grain", as the giver of food or grain, and Thesmophoros (θεσμός, thesmos: divine order, unwritten law; φόρος, phoros: bringer, bearer), "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. She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of the Eleusinian Mysteries, a religious tradition that predated the Olympian pantheon, and which may have its roots in the Mycenaean period c. 1400–1200 BC. Demeter was often considered to be the same figure as the Anatolian goddess Cybele, and in Rome she was identified as the Latin goddess Ceres.