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>>18610911
checked Goddess of bread. Get it? We're all gonna get hella bread.

>DEMETER was the Olympian goddess of agriculture, grain and bread. She also presided over the Mysteries which promised intiates the path to a blessed afterlife.

>Demeter had numerous shrines throughout the ancient world, including a regular temples and sanctuaries dedicated to her Mystery cult. The foremost of these were the celebrated Mysteries of Eleusis overseen by the Athenians.

>Demeter was usually worshipped in conjunction with her daughter Kore-Persephone, goddess of spring growth and the underworld.

>In classical sculpture she was depicted as a motherly woman holding a cornucopia (horn of plenty) brimming with fruit or a bouquet of grain-stalks, or fillets, and poppy flowers.

>Persephone-Kore (Core) was usually depicted alongside her mother as a heavily-robed young woman holding a torch and bouquet of grain. The statue of the goddess below (S14.1) is missing its attributes.