One of this figure's Homeric hymns is the shortest, at three lines long.
One of this figure's Homeric hymns is the shortest, at three lines long. This deity's followerscommemorated the jokes told by Iambe and Baubo by drinking kykeon, a hallucinogenic beverage.This deity put Bootes into the sky, used a fireplace and ambrosia to try and make a baby immortal,and was the oldest figure prayed to at the Thesmophoria and the (*) Eleusinian mysteries. Thisanointer of Demophon bore the wealth god Plutus and lent a winged chariot to Triptolemus, whom sheinstructed. She let mankind suffer a yearlong famine, and then taught humans to plow, while searching fora daughter who resurfaces for half the year. For 10 points, name this mother of Persephone, a goddess offarming and grain.
One of this figure's Homeric hymns is the shortest, at three lines long.
Demeter [or Ceres]