Demeter

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Demeter is the Olympian goddess of the harvest and agriculture, presiding over crops, grains, food, and the fertility of the earth. Although she is mostly known as a grain goddess, she also appeared as a goddess of health, birth, and marriage, and had connections to the Underworld. She is also called Deo. In Greek tradition, Demeter is the second child of the Titans Rhea and Cronus, and sister to Hestia, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Like her other siblings but Zeus, she was swallowed by her father as an infant and rescued by Zeus.

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List of 163 Greek Gods and Goddesses

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Greek mythology is filled with a pantheon (or family) of powerful gods and goddesses. The Greeks created stories about them, but they also believed that the gods were actual beings who acted like people. The most powerful Greek gods and goddesses are well known today: Zeus, Hera, Aphrodite, Athena, Ares, and Apollo among the gods;…