Family: It all begins and ends with family for Demeter. Her actual family with their complicated, messed up history and her choice to not live on Olympus. If she was needed to protect her family, she would be there in a moment, because that's what you do. Yet she considers that Zeus betrayed her and Kore by allowing Hades to take Kore, she's never letting that go. She finds families and creates them around her, because she is at her best when she's tending to growing lives. Her reactions when her families are hurt can seem strange to mortals though, because her sense of scale and what's proper isn't mortal.
Ripeness/Growing: When she's at her full power, she brings the world to ripeness. In Milliways, she's many times explained what she does by saying, "I help things grow." This sums up to me both her sphere agriculture and fertility and her, she wants to see a person grow into a place where they're happy and see a field of wheat be perfectly ripe.
Sensuality: She will never marry, because marriage among the Greek gods is messy. Instead she's happiest when she has joyful days and nights with men who are sharing her joy for life. This is connected to the idea of ripeness, in the Summer, she is a woman at her peak; sure of what she wants and prepared to enjoy it.
Kore: Her daughter is her world. This isn't terribly healthy, but this is how it is for her.
Transformation: She shifts with the seasons, because who she is in Spring/Summer is different from who she is in Fall/Winter. In the Spring/Summer, she is alive and the world echoes her as it grows and reaches for the sun. In the Fall/Winter, the world is quieter and harboring its strength for a later point. Also she doesn't think the idea of shifting shape is odd as its something her family does on a normal basis. This is another reflection of how she's not mortal, shape and looks and form aren't as solid to her as they might be to someone else.
Immortal: She may look like a human, but she's not. Her sense of morality, her ideas of proper scale of reaction, her power, all of these things aren't always obvious but they are there. She has sought out mortals and knows them and their lives fairly well, but she will never be one of them. There are points when this comes out, when her sense of proportion and reaction are strange. This has to be there, because she's a goddess and not like those she resembles.
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Date: 2012-12-03 01:43 pm (UTC)Ripeness/Growing: When she's at her full power, she brings the world to ripeness. In Milliways, she's many times explained what she does by saying, "I help things grow." This sums up to me both her sphere agriculture and fertility and her, she wants to see a person grow into a place where they're happy and see a field of wheat be perfectly ripe.
Sensuality: She will never marry, because marriage among the Greek gods is messy. Instead she's happiest when she has joyful days and nights with men who are sharing her joy for life. This is connected to the idea of ripeness, in the Summer, she is a woman at her peak; sure of what she wants and prepared to enjoy it.
Kore: Her daughter is her world. This isn't terribly healthy, but this is how it is for her.
Transformation: She shifts with the seasons, because who she is in Spring/Summer is different from who she is in Fall/Winter. In the Spring/Summer, she is alive and the world echoes her as it grows and reaches for the sun. In the Fall/Winter, the world is quieter and harboring its strength for a later point. Also she doesn't think the idea of shifting shape is odd as its something her family does on a normal basis. This is another reflection of how she's not mortal, shape and looks and form aren't as solid to her as they might be to someone else.
Immortal: She may look like a human, but she's not. Her sense of morality, her ideas of proper scale of reaction, her power, all of these things aren't always obvious but they are there. She has sought out mortals and knows them and their lives fairly well, but she will never be one of them. There are points when this comes out, when her sense of proportion and reaction are strange. This has to be there, because she's a goddess and not like those she resembles.