what was demeter the god of

Demeter was the Greek goddess of the harvest and agriculture, presiding over crops, grains, food, and the fertility of the earth. She was also known as the Corn-Mother, the goddess of cereals who provides grain for bread and blesses its harvesters. Although she is mostly known as a grain goddess, she also appeared as a goddess of health, birth, and marriage, and had connections to the Underworld.