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Demeter (Ceres)

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Demeter, who was the daughter of Cronus and Rhea, was the goddess of cereal grains, earth and fertility of the World. Her name indicates that she is a mother. The best sources for the principal myth of Demeter are the “Second Homeric Hymn,” and the fifth book of Ovid’s “Metamorphoses,” where, naturally, the names of the main protagonists are changed to their Roman counterparts: Ceres, Pluto, and Proserpine.

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