For myths surrounding the Greek godess Demeter.
For myths surrounding the Greek godess Demeter, the godess of the harvest.
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Who is the goddess Kalligeneia?
While exploring Demeter's title Thesmophoros (θεσμός, thesmos: divine order, unwritten law; φόρος, phoros: bringer, bearer) by clicking on the Wikipedia link, I found nothing relating to it. The link, instead, brought me to a festival celebrated in…
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When was the pool of Mnemosyne first mentioned as part of the Underworld waters?
Beyond lay Erebus, which could be taken for a euphonym of Hades, whose own name was dread. There were two pools, that of Lethe, where the common souls flocked to erase all memory, and the pool of Mnemosyne ("memory"), where the initiates of the…
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Which Greek gods are part of the 12 Olympians?
In most internet sources it says Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Ares, Hermes, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Athena, Apollo, and Artemis are always considered to be Olympians and either Hestia or Dionysus is added to the list. Hades is not considered an…
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Are there any accounts of how Hera, Demeter, and/or Hestia conducted themselves in combat?
Hera, Demeter, and Hestia are said to have fought alongside their brothers Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades in the war against the Titans.
To the modern imagination, it's easy to picture Demeter functioning like DC's Poison Ivy in a fight, commanding…
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