SPROUT

After that, the Father sent out all the other blessed and immortal gods. They came one by one, they kept calling out to her, offering many beautiful gifts all sorts of tîmai that she could choose for herself if she joined the company of the immortal gods. But no one could persuade her in her thinking or in her intention, angry as she was in her thûmos, and she harshly said no to their words. She said that she would never go to fragrant Olympus, that she would never send up the harvest of the earth, until she saw with her own eyes her daughter, the one with the beautiful looks.

(Hymn to Demeter, 325-334)