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Ceres (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Ceres, in Roman mythology, equivalent to the Greek Demeter (see which for more details), daughter of Saturn and Rhea, wife-sister of Jupiter, mother of Proserpina by Jupiter, sister of Juno, Vesta, Neptune and Pluto, and patron of Sicily. |
 | | Ceres was the goddess of growing plants (particularly cereals) and of motherly love. |
 | | Ceres had begged Jupiter that Sicily be placed in the heavens; the result, because the island is triangular in shape, was the constellation Triangulum, an early name of which was Sicilia. |
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