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Demeter was a daughter of Cronus and Rhea and the goddess of the
harvest. She scattered seed and blessed furrows all across the land and
she presided over the sowing, cultivation and harvest. She was very occupied
with her brothers; she favored Zeus, who was the father of her beloved Persephone, while she never forgave Hades for capturing her flower princess
and forcing her to marry him, nothing grew during the months Persephone had to stay underground with her husband, and she feuded with her brother
Poseidon who would swell mischievously every spring and flood her fields,
though they eventually forgave each other and their children, born where
land meets sea, were the winged horse Arion and the nymph Despoena. She
was stately and beneficent , but moody and her moods were life and death
to mortals; her happiness was abundance and her wrath was famine.
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