Editing Demeter (section)

===Favour myths===
[[File:Head of statue of Demeter.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Head of a statue of Demeter, marble, [[Roman imperial period (chronology)|Roman imperial period]], 2nd century CE]]

During her wanderings, Demeter came upon the town of [[Pheneus]]; to the Pheneates that received her warmly and offered her shelter, she gave all sorts of pulse, except for beans, deeming it impure.<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160%3Abook%3D8%3Achapter%3D15%3Asection%3D3 8.15.3].</ref> Two of the Pheneates, Trisaules and Damithales, had a temple of Demeter built for her.<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160%3Abook%3D8%3Achapter%3D15%3Asection%3D4 8.15.4].</ref> Demeter also gifted a [[fig]] tree to [[Phytalus]], an [[Eleusis|Eleusinian]] man, for welcoming her in his home.<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+1.37.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160 1.37.2]; Grimal, s.v. Phytalus, p. 373.</ref>

Demeter gave [[Triptolemus]] her serpent-drawn chariot (one of the serpents that drew this chariot was [[Cychreides|Kykreides]]) and seed and bade him scatter it across the earth (teach humankind the knowledge of agriculture). Triptolemus rode through [[Europe]] and [[Asia]] until he came to the land of [[Lyncus]], a [[Scythian]] king. Lyncus pretended to offer what's accustomed of hospitality to him, but once Triptolemus fell asleep, he attacked him with a dagger, wanting to take credit for his work. Demeter then saved Triptolemus by turning Lyncus into a [[lynx]] and ordered Triptolemus to return home airborne.<ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' [https://ovid.lib.virginia.edu/trans/Metamorph5.htm#479128845 5.642-678]</ref> [[De astronomia|Hyginus]] records a very similar myth, in which Demeter saves Triptolemus from an evil king named [[Carnabon]] who additionally seized Triptolemus' chariot and killed one of the dragons, so he might not escape; Demeter restored the chariot to Triptolemus, substituted the dead dragon with another one, and punished Carnabon by putting him among the stars holding a dragon as if to kill it.<ref>Hyginus, ''[[De astronomia]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/207#2.14.2 2.14.2].</ref>[[File:Statue of Demeter at the Academy of Athens on May 23, 2022.jpg|left|thumb|340px|Statue of Demeter by [[Leonidas Drosis]] in the façade of the [[Academy of Athens (modern)|Academy of Athens]], [[Greece]].]]

When her son [[Philomelus]] invented the plough and used it to cultivate the fields, Demeter was so impressed by his good work that she immortalized him in the sky by turning him into a [[constellation]], the [[Boötes]].<ref>Hyginus, ''[[De astronomia]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/207#2.4.7 2.4.7]; Grimal, s.v. Philomelus, p. 366.</ref>

In the tale of [[Eros]] and [[Psyche (mythology)|Psyche]], Demeter, along with her sister [[Hera]], visited [[Aphrodite]], raging with fury about the girl who had married her son. Aphrodite asks the two to search for her; the two try to talk sense into her, arguing that her son is not a little boy, although he might appear as one, and there's no harm in him falling in love with Psyche. Aphrodite took offence at their words.<ref>[[Apuleius]], ''[[The Golden Ass]]'' [https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/TheGoldenAssV.php#anchor_Toc348436733 5.28-31]</ref> Sometime later, Psyche in her wanderings came across an abandoned shrine of Demeter, and sorted out the neglected sickles and harvest implements she found there. As she was doing so, Demeter appeared to her and called from afar; she warned the girl of Aphrodite's great wrath and her plan to take revenge on her. Then Psyche begged the goddess to help her, but Demeter answered that she could not interfere and incur Aphrodite's anger at her, and for that reason, Psyche had to leave the shrine or else be kept as a captive of hers.<ref>[[Apuleius]], ''[[The Golden Ass]]'' [https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/TheGoldenAssVI.php#anchor_Toc349118610 6.1-4]</ref>

[[Hierax (mythology)|Hierax]], a man of justice and distinction, set up sanctuaries for Demeter and received plenteous harvests from her in return. When the tribe neglected Poseidon in favour of Demeter, the sea god destroyed all of her crops, so Hierax sent them instead his own food and was transformed into a hawk by Poseidon.<ref>[[Antoninus Liberalis]], ''Collection of Transformations'' [https://topostext.org/work/216#3 3]</ref>

Besides giving gifts to those who were welcoming to her, Demeter was also a goddess who nursed the young; all of Plemaeus's children born by his first wife died in a cradle; Demeter took pity on him and reared herself his son [[Orthopolis]].<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+2.5.8&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160 2.5.8].</ref> Plemaeus built a temple to her to thank her.<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+2.11.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160 2.11.2].</ref> Demeter also raised [[Trophonius]], the prophetic son of either [[Apollo]] or [[Erginus of Orchomenus|Erginus]].<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160%3Abook%3D9%3Achapter%3D39%3Asection%3D5 9.39.5]; Grimal, s.v. Trophonius, pp. 459–460.</ref>