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by Talimze on November 25th, 2008
I guess...Demeter...
by Mariecke - winter-sleeping... on November 26th, 2008
Cornucopia? ;)))
by RosieGHM Jetpacker on November 26th, 2008
Maizie? :)
by a 10sEn is the AB Ninja Lounge bartender on November 25th, 2008
Demeter is the Greek Goddess of Fertility and Crops (including corn).
by LynfromNM on November 25th, 2008
Dimitra (Demeter) was the goddess of grain, and that included corn.
by Rinky Dinky Do on November 26th, 2008
Mazola?
by Schroeder on November 25th, 2008
Since Dimitra was the goddess of grain, we are assuming that since corn is a grain, she was the goddess of corn.
However, corn as we know it is indigenous to the americas and was not introduced to europe until the 15th or 16th centuries, the Greeks who created their god had no idea that corn existed. Had the known of corn and had noted many differenciations of it from the other grains they were aware of, they quite possibly might have not included it with grains and invented a different goddess to govern it.
I think we have to assign Dimitra as the goddess of the grains that the greeks knew of and say that there was no goddess of corn.
by mythcraze23 on January 1st, 2009
Well there is none, but since it is farming, Demeter.
by iwnit on December 23rd, 2008
I take "corn" in the sense of cereal.
1) Demeter [Roman: Ceres]
Ceres:
"Corn Goddess. Eternal Mother. the Sorrowing Mother. Grain Mother. Goddess of agriculture, grain, crops, initiation, civilization, lawgiver and the love a mother bears for her child. Protectress of women, motherhood, marriage. Daughter of Saturn and Ops. She and her daughter Proserpine were the counterparts of the Greek goddesses Demeter and Persephone. Her worship involved fertility rites and rites for the dead, and her chief festival was the Cerealia."
Source and further information:
http://www.unrv.com/culture/major-roman-god-list.php
2) Some corn related minor Roman Gods:
"Robigo Goddess of corn.
Robigus God who protected corn from diseases. His festival, the Robigalia, took place on April 25."
And also
"Conditor: God of the harvest.
Consus: God of grain storage. Festivals Consualia August 21 and December 15.
Convector: God of bringing in of the crops from the fields."
"Lactans: God of agriculture."
...and many more Gods an Goddesses for agriculture, fields and fertlility.
Source and further information:
http://www.unrv.com/culture/minor-roman-god-list.php
"Demeter (pronounced /dɨˈmiːtɚ/; Greek: Δημήτηρ, possibly "distribution-mother" from the noun of the Indo-European mother-earth *dheghom *mater, also called simply Δηώ), in Greek mythology, is the Goddess of grain and fertility, the pure. Nourisher of the youth and the green earth, the health-giving cycle of life and death, and preserver of marriage and the sacred law. She is invoked as the "bringer of seasons" in the Homeric hymn, a subtle sign that she was worshipped long before she was made one of the Olympians. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter has been dated to about the seventh century BC. She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of the Eleusinian Mysteries that also predated the Olympian pantheon.
Her Roman equivalent is Ceres.
Demeter is easily confused with Gaia or Rhea, and with Cybele. The goddess's epithets reveal the span of her functions in Greek life. Demeter and Kore ("the maiden") are usually invoked as to theo ('"The Two Goddesses"), and they appear in that form in Linear B graffiti at Mycenaean Pylos in pre-classical times. A connection with the goddess-cults of Minoan Crete is quite possible.
According to the Athenian rhetorician Isocrates, the greatest gifts which Demeter gave were cereal (also known as corn in modern Britain), which made man different from wild animals; and the Mysteries which give man higher hopes in this life and the afterlife."
Source and further information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demeter
by dreams always come true on December 23rd, 2008
billy bob? farmer john? corny?
by Mastodon on December 23rd, 2008
Demeter
by Peregrine on December 23rd, 2008
Cornetto.
by singwell-is off researching a lot on December 23rd, 2008
Since corn was unknown at the time of Greek religion, you would have to go with either Demeter or Ceres, both goddesses of grain in general.
by Rubies_7 on December 23rd, 2008
The goddess of crops/agriculture, unlike the incorrect answers above, was Demeter or also named Ceres(not Dimitra). That is where we get the name cereal as a kind of grain.
From the other answers, true, you do have to consider that issue that the Greeks did not know corn, but you might be able to classify that still under Demeter since she was the goddess of agriculture.
by Andariel on June 20th, 2009
Demeter. She also has do deal with losing her only daughter to Hades for half the year. Poor woman.
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Latin scholar :)
by Sixty B - Commander Topcoat on November 25th, 2008
I could have added Ceres in there for Roman flavor, and to show off.
by Talimze on November 25th, 2008
Bene puella :-)
by Sixty B - Commander Topcoat on November 25th, 2008
What's Latin for double post?? UGH
by Sixty B - Commander Topcoat on November 25th, 2008
My mother used to say that to me when I put gas in her car. Well, sort of...
Yeah, that too...
by Talimze on November 25th, 2008
your mother talked to you in Latin???
She sounds interesting!
by Sixty B - Commander Topcoat on November 25th, 2008
Well, not Latin....sometimes Greek, just because I couldn't understand her. I don't know how she knows Greek, but whatever...
by Talimze on November 25th, 2008
Wow - that's really neat. Did she cook any Greek foods?
by Sixty B - Commander Topcoat on November 25th, 2008
No. She's not ethnically Greek or anything, she just can speak it a little for some reason. It's weird.
by Talimze on November 25th, 2008
Just out of curiosity - did you learn any languages besides English growing up? I know you took Latin, but I am still wondering if you know anything else. I wish I did :(
by Sixty B - Commander Topcoat on November 25th, 2008
I had Spanish forced on me in school, and I pretend to know German sometimes.
by Talimze on November 25th, 2008
You must be brilliant :-P
by Sixty B - Commander Topcoat on November 25th, 2008
I most certainly am...
by Talimze on November 25th, 2008