Phosop
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Phosop or Phaisop is the rice goddess of the Thai people. She is a deity more related to ancient Thai folklore than a goddess of a structured, mainstream religion. She is also known as Mae Khwan Khao.
Image of Phosop the goddess of rice at Siam Society, Bangkok
Rudimentary Phi Na spirit house at a rice field in Isan
Painting of Nang Phosop
Cili, a Balinese Dewi Sri effigy made with lontar palm leaves.
Ceres (mythology)
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In ancient Roman religion, Ceres was a goddess of agriculture, grain crops, fertility, and motherly relationships. She was originally the central deity in Rome's so-called plebeian or Aventine Triad,
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…fantasy/romantic-comedy TV drama titled A Mission from the Goddess of Rice (ปาฏิหารย์รักแม่โพสพ, lit. 'Love Miracle of Mother Phosop') on Channel 3 in 2021. Ceres (mythology) Corn dolly…
Seated Ceres from Emerita Augusta, present-day Mérida, Spain (National Museum of Roman Art, 1st century AD)
Funerary statue of an unknown woman, depicted as Ceres holding wheat. Mid 3rd century AD. (Louvre)
During her long, torch-lit search for her daughter, Proserpina, Ceres drinks water given her by Hecuba, and is mocked by the boy, Askalabos, for spilling some of it. She will transform him into a lowly "star-lizard' or newt (Latin; stellio) as punishment. The episode is in Ovid's, Metamorphoses V, lines 449-450. Oil-paint on copper, by Adam Elsheimer and workshop, copy circa 1605, held by the Museo Nacional del Prado. From an original in the collection of Alfred and Isabel Bader
Ceres holding a bundle of cereal grains, a late 18th century work by Dominik Auliczek of the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory