Special Guest Blogger: Greek God Demeter

Known as Ceres to the Romans, I taught nomadic mankind how to plow the fields and settle down, thus making civilisation possible so i was very popular with the rural folk.
As the daughter of Cronus and Rhea, and as a goddess, a bit of a looker, I was the object of many Gods affections but i fell for a mortal prince called Iasion with whom we had two children, Plutus, who went on to do well from a financial point of view, and Philomelus who invented the plough.
Zeus wasn't happy with me loving a mortal as he wanted me for himself and his solution to break us up was to fling a furious thunderbolt where Iasion happened to be standing leaving a pair of smoking boots but then the horny Poseidon leapt in.
To escape, I changed into a mare and hid in a herd horses but Poseidon changed into a stallion and the result was Arion, a little horse who could speak and had feet. Jealous Zeus could stand it no longer and managed to pin me down for a liaison and another daughter was duly born, the beautiful Persephone.
Now it was the turn of Hades to be jealous and one day while Persephone was playing, the Earth swallowed her up.
When I found my daughter missing I ran round but could not find her and it was Helios, the Sun God and right old nosy parker who notices everything, had a quick word in my ear saying Persephone was now the consort of Hades in the Underworld.
In my distraught state crops failed, wheat withered and livestock limped to a breeding halt which had the Gods gnawing their fingers and beseeched me to return but I refused to help until I could see my daughter.
The starving God's sent Hermes to the Underworld for negotiations with Hades and a was agreed, but as Persephone had eaten the mystic Underworld pomegranates, she was tied to the realm of death. But a deal was struck and she was allowed out for half the year.
I was so pleased to see her that flowers bloomed and summer was born but when Persephone is summoned back to Hades six months later, my mourning  returns and leaves fall off the trees and along comes the winter.