Demeter-Ceres

Demeter - Ceres

Demeter is the Olympian goddess of the harvest and agriculture, presiding over grains and the fertility of the earth. Her cult titles include Sito , "she of the Grain", as the giver of food or grain, and Thesmophoros , "Law-Bringer", as a mark of the civilized existence of agricultural society.

Though Demeter is often described simply as the goddess of the harvest, she presided also over the sacred law, and the cycle of life and death. She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of the Eleusinian Mysteries, a religious tradition that predated the Olympian pantheon, and which may have its roots in the Mycenaean period c. 1400–1200 BC. Demeter was often considered to be the same figure as the Anatolian goddess Cybele, and she was identified with the Roman goddess Ceres.

Demeter - Ceres Stamp Collection

Demeter - Goddess of agriculture, fertil

Greece 1986 Demeter with pomegranade tree

Greece 1963 Demeter in "Freedom from Hunger Campaign".

The design is based on 10 silver Drachma(1930)

bas-relief from Eleusis, 440–430 BC: To the left Demeter, goddess of the earth and fertility, is shown giving corn to the young Triptolemos, who will pass on the knowledge of agriculture to humankind. On the right stands Persephone with her torch, who having returned from the underworld symbolises the turning of the seasons that enables agriculture to flourish.

Relief of Demeter in Pompeii depicting her as a goddess of agriculture

Greece 2014 Demeter , legumes and candle in the month of November of folk art.

Spain 1967 Ceres statue and the roman city's wall . 2000 years to the city Caceres (Colonia Norbensis Caesarina)

Belgium 2012 Offering to Ceres, Goddess of Harvest circa 1619 by Jacob (Jacques) Jordaens 1593 – 1678.

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Greece 1951 Demeter standing in front of a plowed field as one of the set "Marshall Plan".

Demeter figure is based on a bas-relief from Eleusis.

Cyprus 1963 Demeter in "Freedom from Hunger Campaign".

The design is based on a Relief of Demeter in Pompeii.

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Grenada 1973 Centenary of the world meteorological organization. Demeter holding grains and a space foto of an hurican

Statue of the goddess Ceres next to the main square, Caceres, Spain

Crowned with wheat, as goddess of the Earth, Ceres holds a horn filled with fruit, a symbol of the abundance and fertility that characterizes her. She receives homage from a group of peasants, who bear an offering of the products they receive from the earth they farm. This goddess taught humans to use the plow and to farm, to which the painter alludes by including oxen in the work. Ceres also embodies the changing seasons, that is, the cycle of life, which is represented here by the figures of different ages that surround the goddess: children, youth, adults and the aged. Even the beginning of new life is reflected in the goddess´s pregnancy.

Demeter and the Department of Agricultur

Greece 1995 75 years to the university of agriculture in Athens , with the image of Demeter.

Ukrina 1992 Head of Ceres

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El Salvador 1899 Allegory of Central American Union with Ceres

Belgium 1932 Ceres goddess of agriculture , copper engraving of Louis Buisseret (1888-1956)

Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus freezes by Abraham Janssens van Nuyssen

Its title from a quotation from the Roman playwright Terence, "sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus" ("without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus freezes") i.e. love cannot survive without food and wine).

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Ceres-Bacchus-and-Venus by van nuyssan.j

Romania 2016 Venus, Cupid, Bacchus And Ceres by Abraham Janssens van Nuyssen

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Soviet Union 1987 Ceres statue by Rubens 1615

A Statue of Ceres is a c.1615 oil on oak panel by Peter Paul Rubens, now in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. It shows putti offering garlands to a statue of the Roman fertility goddess Ceres.