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Title: The story of corn and the westward migration
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Brooks, Eugene Clyde, 1871-
Subjects: Corn
Publisher: Chicago : Rand, McNally
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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of Mythical Stories of Our Food-Giving Plants ig heaven, who had caused the water to come againand the famine to cease; therefore Isis was worshipedas the immediate cause of the Niles overflow andof the peoples prosperity. On the monuments sheis called the goddess mother, the mistress of heaven,the eye of the sun, and the queen of the gods. The Greek and Roman Myth: Ceres and Pro-serpine. The Greek goddess of seed and harvestwas Demeter, whopresided over thesowing, reaping, andgrinding of corn.The Romans wor-shiped Ceres, whowas the creator offood for man. Whenthe Greeks settled inItaly and associatedwith the Romansthey adopted Ceresas their goddess, butgave to her many ofthe mythological in-cidents which origi-nated with Demeter.These stories were believed by both Greeks andRomans. The most noted of these is the story ofCeres and Proserpine. The Greeks and Romans believed- that Ceres,during July and August, was driving over the earthcaring for the growing plants, and that during the
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From a painting in Pompeii CereSy the goddess of seed and harvest 20 The Story of Corn month of September she was ripening the fruit andmaking the fields yellow with nodding heads ofgolden grain. These ancient peoples believed thatformerly plants had grown and ripened all the yearround; but one day while Ceres was caring for theripening grain and fruits over the earth, her daughterProserpine, a young woman of great beauty, wasseized by Pluto, the god of the lower regions, whocarried her to his home in Hades. When Ceresreturned home she was stricken with grief, and overthe whole earth she drove her chariot, calling uponall things to help her in her search, but in vain.Then in her great grief the goddess refused to allowthe grain to grow and to ripen, and there was faminein all the world. , , Jupiter, however, seeing the great distress below,sent Mercury, the wing-footed messenger of thegods, to Pluto, commanding him to release Proser-pine. She was restored to her mother, and therewas g

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