CLAS104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Homeric Hymns, Barley Water, Triptolemus
26 Aug 2016
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Chapter #14 - demeter: attributes: staff and grain. Staff either represents authority or represents travel grain means vegetation she is the goddess of grain and vegetation. Nature goddess of fertility (agricultural), grain, and vegetation: mother. Name de means earth or barley or tamer, meter means mother mother earth. Mother of persephone also a fertility goddess they are very closely connected. Thus often called the two goddesses or the two demeters. Triptolemus was taught demeter"s agricultural arts (given the gift of growing plants and grain) from demeter and he spread the arts thought the world travels in a magical car drawn by winged dragons. The dutter and damu story is similar from the eastern mesopotamian story with demeter and. The god damu descends into the underworld (male god) and he gets stuck there dutter his mother looking for him she is goddess of the grain and fertility goddess and she looking all over for him.
