English to afrikaans meaning of

In die Griekse mitologie is Demeter die godin van die oes, vrugbaarheid, landbou en die siklus van lewe en dood. Die naam Demeter kom van die Griekse woorde "de" wat aarde beteken en "meter" wat moeder beteken, so haar naam kan as "moeder aarde" vertaal word.

Sentence Examples

  1. They carried him back into the sunlight, planted him on the ground, then forced him to walk down the stairs and, finally, into the Temple of Demeter.
  2. A woman he could only take for Demeter herself sat on the grass, within a beam of sunlight as if the rays had carried her down from the firmament to grace the Earth with her presence.
  3. Though he knew Demeter must surely receive Men as petitioners and slaves, he could not push down the lump in his throat nor still his dancing stomach.
  4. Then his sister was walking in a throne room, a modest one compared to the palace of Demeter, but hardly unadorned, for bright frescoes bedecked the walls and tapestries depicted ancient glories.
  5. What had Demeter meant, in her accusations of his crimes?
  6. The more Ambrosia one consumed, the harder it became to have children, or so Demeter had told her ages back.
  7. AT FIRST, the basement under the Temple of Demeter seemed pitch black, and Kadmus had to navigate with a hand upon the smooth stone of the wall.
  8. It turns out that the schooner is a Russian from Varna, and is called the Demeter.
  9. Though Demeter met his gaze, Kadmus could not shake the impression those lifeless eyes failed to see him.
  10. Tiny, but hardly humble, for a peristyle of caryatid columns surrounded the abode, making it seem more a rural temple to Artemis or Demeter than a home.