Demeter is the Greek goddess of the harvest and agriculture, presiding over crops, grains, food, and the fertility of the earth. She is also known as the goddess of health, birth, and marriage, and had connections to the Underworld. Demeter is often depicted as a mature woman, wearing a crown and bearing sheafs of wheat or a cornucopia (horn of plenty), and a torch. Her individuality was rooted in the less developed personality of the earth goddess, Gaia. Demeters role as the goddess of the harvest meant she had a close connection with the earth, particularly the goddess figure of Gaia, or ‘Mother Earth’. Demeter had several children with different gods as fathers, including the beautiful Persephone, goddess of spring and fertility, who was fathered by Demeter’s brother Zeus.