The goddess Demeter's search for and ultimate reunion with her daughter, Persephone, sends symbolic messages about mothering ...

Blythe Danner has been cast on Season 3 of Starz’s “American God” in the recurring guest role of Demeter, the Greek goddess of the harvest “who has an unresolved romantic history” with Ian McShane’s ...

The Return of Persephone (1891) by Frederic Leighton (1830–1896) The god Hermes helps Persephone return to her mother Demeter. Source: Leeds Art Gallery/Public Domain As the siege of global ...

SEATTLE - 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 ...

Demeter, goddess of grain and Earth, cares for the harvest. When Demeter is sad, crops do not thrive. When crops wither and die, people starve. And so it is important – no, more than that, it is vital ...