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Demeter, the kind Greek goddess of vegetation and the fields. As the mother of Persephone, Demeter withholds her nourishing gifts in the months her daughter spends in the Underworld, and allows the world to burst into bloom each year upon her return. I've shown her fondly surveying her fields and orchards as she tenderly cradles some ears of early harvest corn.Related content
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Hi! Would you mind using this picture on my blog? Of course, I'd mark the source and link it back here.
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Bravo. You heard it, and all your pictures "reaped" afterwards. Any person can feel that there is more than "fantasy." The fineness of the lines, the delicacy of the colors ... even if a drawing is "only" Any person can communicate with the represented person very well. This is, for me, the best proof that the work is completed. If I have a problem and go to the "Council of the pre-Gone" has to get answers to difficult questions, I like to visit your pages.
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Wow, May i use this in my school project on Demeter???
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I love how you made the hair look like wheat
Very original (:
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WHOA. I love what you have done to Demeter.
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This is spectacular! I love it very, very much!
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I like the perspective especially...circling 'round
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This is so beautiful. I love all the shades of green, and how her hair looks sort of like wheat. Nice job.
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Hello! 
Gorgeous work!
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would you mind if i used this in my english project? I have to relate the whole demeter and persephone story to beowulf and i need to make a poster
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Sure go right ahead.
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thank youu
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One of my favorite goddesses. I just might have to add this entir gallery to my favorites.
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Well thanks so much, I'm happy you like my gallery!
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Very nice touch, putting her in the middle of all living plants! She looks at peace; her daughter is home during these months. Lovely.
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Thank you! I've always loved Demeter, she seems like the most benevolent of the Gods.
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Her story is very, very interesting. I mean, the Greeks showed the intense love between a mother and a child, but is Persephone's father ever mentioned? In a male-dominated society, that's odd; it is giving the mother a certain dignity that can be seen in most of the stories. However, it probably would have been bad for a man's malehood to have cared too much about his daughter.
Ah, that's my immediate assessment.
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In many versions of the story, Persephone's father is Zeus. I think in a few he's Poseidon, but you'll always find at least 10 versions of every story in Mythology.
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LOL I know.
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Lovely, I particularly like the way the cloth came out with all those lovely ripples.
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Thanks very much! I always love painting fabrics.
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You are welcome, for all of them.
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The dress is very well executed. Perfect shading, and a great idea. 
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Thank you! The corn in her arms is actually my favorite part of this one, I'm really glad you like it!
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cool pic
lol, hate to b a nark but . . .
demeater dose not go to the underworld, her daughter Persephonie dose, she was tricked into marrying Hades, and ate the food of the underworld, so cannor return, but Zeus made it so she could come out for half the year, and Demeter is happy and the lands thrive when she is reunited with her daughter, and Demeter goes into a depression when Persephonie returns to the underworld.
I love the pic mate, the style and green's r awesome
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Oh yes, you're definitely right, but I think you may have misread the description. It said she waits for Persephone to return form the underworld, not that she goes there herself. I'm glad you like it!
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sure do it's awesome
any diety who looks after agricolture and is of arcane beauty is good in my books
and sorry for jabbering on, i should read things better before i say stuff
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Don't worry about it, I'm just glad you like her so much!
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LOL, yep, good-good
what area's of mythology do u preferr?
wich form (classic, chinese, greek .etc)
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I love Greek mythology, but I'm starting to get into Norse and Celtic too.
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awesome
i love norse mythology
i have this thing for the norse verson of a Rusulka, lol, mabye coz i used to live by a lake with willows overhanging it
norse have some awesome stuff, its a very homely kind of stuff, u kno what i mean?
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Definitely, Norse mythology is unique!
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That's very beautiful! I love the colors and the way the dress twirls!
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Thanks so much!
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Thanks so much!
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You welcome!!
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