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Demeter Deutschland is working as a certifier for "biodynamic" production of food within Germany. Head of the association is Alexander Gerber und Johannes Kamps-Bender. Main competitor in Germany are Bioland and Naturland certifier associations. [15] Demeter has a strong connection to "Alnatura" Bio-discounter-chain, which are also anthroposophic.
Demeter/Ceres – The goddess of agriculture. She appears alongside her daughter Persephone in The Last Olympian, where they participate in the battle against the Titans. [7] Demeter's cabin in Camp Half-Blood is Cabin 4. In the film adaptation of The Lightning Thief, Demeter is portrayed by Stefanie von Pfetten.
"Despoina" was an epithet for several goddesses, especially Aphrodite, Persephone, Demeter, and Hecate. [32] [33] Persephone and Demeter are two of the three goddesses of the Eleusinian mysteries. They are perhaps the "Two Queens" referred to in various Linear B inscriptions. [34] At Olympia they were called Despoinai (Δέσποιναι). [35]
Demeter is the ancient Greek goddess of agriculture, harvest, crops, grains, fertility and food. ... This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Demeter drives her horse-drawn chariot containing her daughter Persephone-Kore at Selinunte, Sicily, 6th century BC. Demeter's daughter Persephone was abducted to the Underworld by Hades, who received permission from her father Zeus to take her as his bride. Demeter searched for her ceaselessly for nine days, preoccupied with her grief.
*Heðaningas, from the personal name Heoden or maybe meaning "people of the skins". The German form may show a phonetic development of -tl- to -gl- or have been influenced by the place name Högling near Tegernsee. [161] Ethnic name of Heoden's people.
A scene from one of the Merseburg Incantations: gods Wodan and Balder stand before the goddesses Sunna, Sinthgunt, Volla, and Friia (Emil Doepler, 1905). In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peoples who inhabit Germanic Europe, there were a number of different gods and goddesses.
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