Demeter Ceres Mother Earth (Cerebral Palsy)
Cybele or Ceres portrayed as a stout round figure and the lions represent untamed nature.
Temples to Ceres were often round.

DEMETER, CERES, nourishing MOTHER or MOTHER EARTH is an ancient embodiment of ideas about motherhood and the GENEsis of life. Ideas in MOTHER, MOTHERHOOD, PREGNANCY, ABORTION, DELIVERY and NURTURING or NURSING are presented in other illustrated overviews. Note that other personifications of DEMETER, such as VESTA, CYBELE and RHEA, among others are omitted from this overview.

Ceres or Demeter
Ceres and Persephony with Triptolemos	Cornucopia

The history of DEMETER is obscure but many experts tend to agree that her personification may be perpetuated by the ideals represented by the Virgin Mary. It is a fact that St Paul and St Peter compared Demeter with the Virgin Mary.

Demeter or Ceres is one of the 12 great Olympian Deities. The tragedy of Demeter was the abduction by Hades or Pluto of her daughter Persephone or  Proserpina. Ceres represented the vital fertility of nature but the marriage of her daughter Persephone to Hades was sterile. With time, Proserpina developed an affection for Hades, who let Persephone periodically return to earth. She was to spend equal time with her mother Ceres and with Venus. The ancients believed that Spring marked the return of Persephone and the end of the sterility of Winter. Ancient poets wrote that the Spring season is announced when "the birds start singing again their love songs".  Ancient poets also claim that once CEREs became reconciled with the fate of Persephone, she taught humanity how to better CEREbrate and taught Triptolemus the art of agriculture.

Cybele or Rhea

Most humans feel gratitude for bountiful harvests which to this day are called Cornucopia, the emblem of Demeter holding a HORN filled with CORN or grains.

Summer Time ... the living is easy.

Personifications of Cybele as Vesta, Rhea, Ge, Gaia, Gea, Kore or Khora augment the aura cast by Demeter. She also plays a role in the legends about Arion, Ascalabus, Keleos, Jasion, Erysichton, Haloa, Thalysia, Thesmophoros, and Jacchos.

Violence	Envy

Regarding "mother", under Hinduism there are seven divine mothers or SHAKTI MATRIKA which are concerned with the suppression of seven evils; desire, anger, lust, pride, rumor, delusions, fault finding and envy. Such sins are also known as cupidity, ira, libido, superbia, fallacia, indicia, calumnia and invidia and are linked to the deadly sins referred to by Christians.

Sloth	Avarice	Pride

Mother or in Arabic MATRAH, also denotes foundation, an idea present in MATH and MATTRess. Notably, DE METER points to METER for MEASURE and METRO as found in METRIC, METROrhagia (uterine bleeding) and son on. Without a doubt, DeMETER is a METER or measure of life.

Lust	Gluttony

From Sanskrit we get MATAri, MATA, MATRI, MATRICA, MATRIK, MATRA for "growing in the mother", nature, earth, divine energy, MATRIx, measure and material elements as is MADera or wood and MADre or mother in Spanish. Living MATter MATerializes and the MATrix, MATriz or UTERUS, is the mold for new life and MATernity.

Cornucopia and Paradise

For Biblical cultures, the MATerialization of life through a MATrix may imply paradise lost, mortality and sin. For others, truth, life, infinity and timelessness are examples of ideas that are considered to be beyond the grasp of the CEREbrum CEREs granted us.

Triptolemos spreading Agriculture.