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Demeter is one of the first wave of Ocean Masters hired by Three Rings. She is governor of Alpha Island, one of only two Ocean Master-controlled islands on the Midnight Ocean. In Greek mythology, she is the goddess of agriculture and was endlessly generous until her daughter Persephone was kidnapped by Hades. Demeter refused to let anything grow. When the other gods went to get Persephone, Hades had tricked Persephone into marrying him. A compromise was reached.
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D[E]meter, who took her name from Mother Earth, was one in the generation of children born to Cronus and Rhea. Her name serves as a link to the Indio-European deities that the Hellenes brought with them. Gradually her divine personality was enriched with traits undoubtedly barrowed from pre-Hellenic deities, for she was never confused with Earth, or Gaia, who was considered a cosmic element. Her province was over cultivated soil, especially land producing corn, which was why she was thought of as the goddess of vegetation, particularly corn. Her legends proliferated in areas of fertile plains, especially on the plain of Eleusis near Athens and Sicily, which long served as the granaries of the ancient world.
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"At Demeter, we have extremely rigid guidelines that a winemaker must follow in order for it to be considered Biodynamic," said Jim Fullmer, director of Demeter USA. "By simply following the rhythms of nature, these exceptional wines offer the truest expression of flavor and rely exclusively on the quality of the grape."
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Demeter had a daughter by Zeus called Persephone*. The figures of Demeter and Persephone are closely related, and certain aspects of Persephone—for example, as a goddess of the underworld—are ... associated with Demeter in different versions of the same myth.
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Demeter was possibly the oldest of the gods/goddesses, and, like Hera who was born later, was swallowed by her father and, like Hera, was both a mate to Zeus as well as his sibling. Demeter is connected with the Eleusinian Mysteries--a ritual celebrating the annual birth and death of corn. She is connected with the perpetuation of the food supply for large populations. Demeter goddess pre-dates the Greeks--she was the ancient Earth Mother. Both Demeter and her daughter, Persephone, are said to be two different aspects of the same goddess--Persephone (Kore), the maiden and Demeter, the Mother.
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Demeter's self-imposed exile caused the earth to go barren and Zeus, who was responsible for maintaining order in the world, finally commanded his brother Hades to give back Persephone. Because she had eaten seven seeds from a pomegranate while in the Underworld... Persephone was bound to remain there. An arrangement was eventually worked out and Demeter's daughter later returned to earth with the condition that she spends four months of each year with Hades. In these months Demeter misses her daughter so much that she withdraws her gifts from the earth, and winter comes. But when her daughter returns, Demeter is so happy that she restores all her gifts and spring starts.
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