The Guide to Ancient Greece

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This is Demeter, and I don't know what the torch is for.

Demeter was the goddess of agriculture. She usually appears holding wheat or her horn. She often looks like a woman with a veil, not all the time though. She was in charge of fertility of the land. She usually didn't  take bad things that great. Like when her daughter was stolen from her. Which, by the way, is Demeter’s story. Click here to see that story.