What is Demeter the Greek God known for?

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1. Negeshia says:

   November 5, 2009 at 12:53 pm

   Goddess of grain and fertility, the pure. Nourisher of the youth and the green earth, the health-giving cycle of life and death, and preserver of marriage and the sacred law.
2. BaCk AgAiN YaLL NuHz KanT StOpMe says:

   November 5, 2009 at 12:53 pm

   Demete
3. junii says:

   November 5, 2009 at 12:53 pm

   Demeter (pronounced /dɨˈmiːtɚ/; Greek: Δημήτηρ, lit. "Earth-Mother" from the Doric Dā form of Greek Ge "Earth" and Meter "Mother"[1]. Or possibly "distribution-mother" from the noun of the Indo-European mother-earth *dheghom[2] *mater, also called simply Δηώ), in Greek mythology, is the Goddess of grain and fertility, the pure. Nourisher of the youth and the green earth, the health-giving cycle of life and death, and preserver of marriage and the sacred law. In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, dated to about the seventh century BC.[3] she is invoked as the "bringer of seasons", a subtle sign that she was worshipped long before she was made one of the Olympians. She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of the Eleusinian Mysteries that also predated the Olympian pantheon.

   Her Roman equivalent is Ceres.

   Demeter is easily confused with Gaia or Rhea, and with Cybele. The goddess’s epithets reveal the span of her functions in Greek life. Demeter and Kore ("the maiden") are usually invoked as to theo (‘"The Two Goddesses"), and they appear in that form in Linear B graffiti at Mycenaean Pylos in pre-classical times. A connection with the goddess-cults of Minoan Crete is quite possible.

   According to the Athenian rhetorician Isocrates, the greatest gifts which Demeter gave were cereal (also known as corn in modern Britain), which made man different from wild animals; and the Mysteries which give man higher hopes in this life and the afterlife.[4]
4. Joe says:

   November 5, 2009 at 12:53 pm

   Demeter, Greek Goddess of The Bountiful Harvest
   she controls the harvest = )
5. Grape Juice says:

   November 5, 2009 at 12:53 pm

   For the Greeks, Demeter is an earth goddess; her name is De, which means earth (the same word as Gaia) and meter, which means mother. Demeter is the goddess of growing things, especially of grains like wheat and barley and millet.

   Demeter’s daughter, Persephone, is the grain itself, so Demeter is the earth giving birth to the grain.

   Mythologically, Demeter is the sister of Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, and Hera, and so, like them, she is the daughter of Gaia, or Earth. This makes a lot of sense for a goddess of growing crops, because that is exactly what produces crops: earth.
   Demeter and Persephone
   Demeter, Persephone, and Triptolemos (the boy),
   an 1899 drawing from a stone carving found at Eleusis .

   The most important story about Demeter is that of her daughter Persephone.

   Demeter also plays an important part in the Greek religious mystery cult at Eleusis.