He was also considered the god of grain and bountiful crops. After all, a good harvest also depends on time. In Athens, they celebrated his generosity during a harvest festival called Kronia. It honored the god for providing a bountiful harvest throughout the growing season. In his Roman ...
The most important story about her is the abduction of her daughter Persephone by Hades, God of the Underworld. Demeter wandered the earth in her grief looking for her daughter, and when she discovered what had happened she let the earth become barren and the crops fail so that humanity face...
according to him, Prometheus himself is an immortal god, the friend of the human race, the giver of fire, the inventor of the useful arts, an omniscient seer, an heroic sufferer, who is overcome by the superior power of Zeus, but will not bend his inflexible mind. Although...
Her equivalent in Greek mythology would be Demeter. She is theGoddess of cropsand her symbol is a cornucopia. She is also the daughter of Saturn and Ops, therefore she is the sister of Juno or Vesta, the goddess that we will see in the next point. Others of her brothers were Jupiter,...
Description: He’s an Anemoi (wind god) who brings hot winds from the south and is feared as the destroyer of crops. Oceanus Origin: Greek Meaning: Titan god of the ocean Variations/Synonyms: Okeanus Description: He personifies the sea. He and his sister, Titan Tethys, had numerous ...
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She wandered the length and breadth of the earth in search of her daughter, during which time the crops withered and it became perpetual winter. At length Hades was persuaded to surrender Persephone for one half of every year, the spring and summer seasons when flowers bloom and the earth ...
Khitone (Goddess of the Tunic), sojourner in Miletos; for thee did Neleus [i.e. the founder of Miletos] make his Guide, when he put off with his ships from the land of Kekrops (Cecrops) [i.e. Attika]. Khesias (Chesias) (Lady of Khesion) and Imbrasia (Lady of Imbrasos), ...
Then the Great Hunter Orion (who was up to much the same thing) got belted into oblivion with the aid of a large scorpion. We are not sure how, as eyewitnesses are understandably reluctant to come forward. There are many ‘hunting accidents’ when the name Artemis crops up. But who ...
Having no idea what had happened, Demeter, Greek goddess though she was, dropped everything and wandered the land, searching in vain for traces of her daughter. While searched and mourned, the crops failed and the land became barren. Humans prayed to the gods to return Persephone to her mot...