Demeter
c. 1400 BCE – 400 CEattested
Eleusis
- Greek
Grain goddess whose search for her stolen daughter froze the world. Her mysteries at Eleusis ran for roughly two thousand years, and initiates kept the secret so well we still do not know what they saw.
Known for
- grief that stops the harvest
- the Eleusinian mysteries
- a secret nobody broke
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.