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Demeter:

The Olympian goddess of the harvest and agriculture, presiding over grains and the fertility of the earth. She was also called Deo.

Etymology:

It is possible that Demeter appears in Linear A as da-ma-te on three documents, all three apparently dedicated in religious situations and all three bearing just the name It is unlikely that Demeter appears as da-ma-te in a Linear B (Mycenean Greek) inscription; the word, da-ma-te, probably refers to "households". On the other hand, si-to-po-ti-ni-ja, "Potnia of the Grain", is regarded as referring to her Bronze Age predecessor or to one of her epithets. Demeter's character as mother-goddess is identified in the second element of her name meter derived from Proto-Indo-European *méhâ‚‚tÄ“r (mother). In antiquity, different explanations were already proffered for the first element of her name.

It is possible that Da (Δᾶ), a word which corresponds to GÄ“ in Attic, is the Doric form of De (Δῆ), "earth", the old name of the chthonic earth-goddess, and that Demeter is "Mother-Earth". Liddell & Scott find this "improbable" and Beekes writes, "there is no indication that [da] means "earth", although it has also been assumed in the name of Poseidon found in the Linear B inscription E-ne-si-da-o-ne, "earth-shaker". John Chadwick also argues that the dā element in the name of Demeter is not so simply equated with "earth".M. L. West has proposed that Demeter, initially Damater, could be a borrowing from an Illyrian deity attested in the Messapic goddess Damatura, with a form dā- attached to -matura ("mother"), akin to the Illyrian god Dei-paturos. The Lesbian form Dō- may simply reflect a different dialectal pronunciation of the non-Greek name.

The element De- may also be connected with Deo, an epithet of Demetercould derive from the Cretan word dea  Ionic zeia variously identified with emmer, spelt, rye, or other grains by modern scholars—so that she is the Mother and the giver of food generally. This view is shared by British scholar Jane Ellen Harrison, who suggests that Démeter's name means Grain-Mother, instead of Earth-Mother.Wanax (wa-na-ka) was her male companion in Mycenaean cult.The Arcadian cult links her to the god Poseidon, who probably substituted the male companion of the Great Goddess; Demeter may therefore be related to a Minoan Great Goddess (Cybele).An alternative Proto-Indo-European etymology comes through Potnia and Despoina, where Des- represents a derivative of PIE *dem (house, dome), and Demeter is "mother of the house" R. S. P. Beekes rejects a Greek interpretation, but not necessarily an Indo-European one.

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