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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 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.
Demeter is the ancient Greek goddess of agriculture, harvest, crops, grains, fertility and food. She is a member of the Twelve Olympians. Subcategories.
[233] [229] [note 8] A goddess spinning appears in a bracteate from southwest Germany and a relief from Trier shows three mother goddesses, with two of them holding distaffs. Tenth-century German ecclesiastical writings denounce the popular belief in three sisters who determined the course of a man's life at his birth. [ 229 ]
"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]
Selene (along with Helios, Nyx and others) received an altar at the sanctuary of Demeter at Pergamon, possibly in connection with the Orphic mysteries. [ 132 ] Attic Kylix with Selene and her horse and crescent Moon, circa 450 BC, by the Brygos Painter .
Demeter was founded by ex-Kiehl's perfumer Christopher Brosius, and Christopher Gable in 1993, as a project to "bottle" everyday odors into wearable personal colognes.The first three colognes that were created – Dirt, Grass and Tomato – were launched at New York department store Henri Bendel in 1996.
Demeter (1922, Schriftguss Type Foundry, later Typoart) [2] This is one of a few German faces BB&S in Chicago received in exchange for rights to the Cooper types. [1] Demeter Schraffiert (1922, Schriftguss Type Foundry [1] Dresden, decorative face, for Schriftgus A.G. Dresden, cut by Barnhart Brothers & Spindler in 1925, 12-30pt [3]