A mysterious "snake goddess" painted on terracotta and discovered in Athens may actually be Demeter, the Greek goddess of the harvest. Once linked to the worship of the dead, the goddess is flanked by ...

Persephone was the daughter of Demeter, the Goddess of the harvest, and lived with her mother on the Island of Sicily. A volcano on the island erupted and Hades emerged from his underworld kingdom. He ...

SEATTLE—The so-called “snake goddess” depicted on a piece of pottery found in the early twentieth century in the Athenian agora has possibly been identified as Demeter, the Greek goddess of the ...

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