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Demeter’s Grief I am the Goddess of harvest and agriculture; all those who worship me call me Demeter. My story begins with me having only one child, and it is my dearest daughter, Persephone. She is beautiful, kind, and also the daughter of my brother Zeus, I care about her the most. Persephone has always been delightful being around, she is all joyful and full of warm smiles. But then one morning, she went out to the fields to gather some flowers like she would do. As time passes, she has not come back from the fields. I begin to worry as the hour’s pass by thinking why she is taking so long. But I am certain that she takes her time to gaze upon the ravishing flowers. Later in the morning, I hear an echoing cry from the mountains, the voice had seemed to belong to Persephone. I rush and sped out to search for her down on earth; I roam all around, I start to panic and wonder if I will be able to find her. My tears start to roll down on my cheek as I yell out for Persephone, she was nowhere in sight.

I still go on to search for her and hope that she will come back all well and joyful. As I pass by the trees, they start to wither leaves, then flowers start to
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I grew attached to him as the days passed when I take care of him, but I fear the short mortal life he will live. I have made my plan to make him immortal by anointing him with ambrosia, then by night, placing him in a ring of fire to give him immortal youth. But Metaneira intruded in. She screamed and rushed in quickly and snatched Demophoon out of the ring of fire. I burst in anger and left the both of them, I still withheld the goods from earth from my grieving of Persephone. Mortals come to me and bow to ask that I give back the nourishment of crops, but I do not

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