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![]() AD 14 ) reflected closest to the one on the Petaluma Seal. Of all the pictures I researched, the ones to do with the Augustan period ( 27 B.C. The ancient Eleusinian mysteries of Life and Death center around this goddess. ![]() She was also approached for expiation during natural calamities and oddities. Sacramental stages in life such as birth, initiation, marriage, divorce, death saw many an offering made to her. During important stages in farming and animal husbandry she was invoked and appeased. Both Roman and Greek traditions reveal her connection with fields, countryside, crops particularly grain, food especially bread and animals such as the cow, sheep and the pig. ![]() This is the divinity associated with Fertility and Liminality. Just like the warrior Athena/Minerva on the seal of California, here we have the goddess Demeter -Ceres. The artist has derived inspiration from Greco- Roman mythology. ![]()
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