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Mater Dea
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Hera was the wife and older sister of Zeus. Her chief function was as goddess of marriage. Her equivalent in Roman mythology was Juno. The cow and peacock are sacred to her. In late symbolic interpretations of the gods, she was identified as the upper air (aër).
In Greek mythology Dêmêtêr /də\'miː.tɚ/ (Greek: Δημήτηρ, \"mother-earth\" or possibly \"distribution-mother\" from the noun of the Indo-European mother-earth *dheghom *mater, also called simply Δηώ) is the goddess of grain and fertility , the pure nourisher of the youth and the green earth, the health-giving cycle of life and death, and preserver of marriage and the sacred law. She is invoked as the \"bringer of seasons\" in the Homeric hymn, a subtle sign that she was worshiped long before the Olympians arrived. Another story states that she was one of the twelve Olympians. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter has been dated to sometime around the Seventh Century BC.[1] She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of the Eleusinian Mysteries that also predated the Olympian pantheon.
