One of this figure's Homeric hymns is the shortest, at three lines long. This deity's followerscommemorated the jokes told by Iambe and Baubo by drinking kykeon, a hallucinogenic beverage.This deity put Bootes into the sky, used a fireplace and ambrosia to try and make a baby immortal,and was the oldest figure prayed to at the Thesmophoria and the (*) Eleusinian mysteries.
One of this figure's Homeric hymns is the shortest, at three lines long. This deity's followerscommemorated the jokes told by Iambe and Baubo by drinking kykeon, a hallucinogenic beverage.This deity put Bootes into the sky, used a fireplace and ambrosia to try and make a baby immortal,and was the oldest figure prayed to at the Thesmophoria and the (*) Eleusinian mysteries. Thisanointer of Demophon bore the wealth god Plutus and lent a winged chariot to Triptolemus, whom sheinstructed. She let mankind suffer a yearlong famine, and then taught humans to plow, while searching fora daughter who resurfaces for half the year. For 10 points, name this mother of Persephone, a goddess offarming and grain.
One of this figure's Homeric hymns is the shortest, at three lines long.
Demeter [or Ceres]