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Triptolemus

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Triptolemus (trĭptŏl`əməs): see Demeter Demeter (dĭmē`tər), in Greek religion and mythology, goddess of harvest and fertility; daughter of Kronos and Rhea.
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Triptolemus
an Eleusinian who learns from Demeter the art of growing corn. [Gk. Myth.: NCE, 557]
See : Farming


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Further, the insignificance of Triptolemus and Eumolpus point to considerable antiquity, and the digamma is still active.
If indeed when the pilgrim arrives in the world below, he is delivered from the professors of justice in this world, and finds the true judges who are said to give judgment there, Minos and Rhadamanthus and Aeacus and Triptolemus, and other sons of God who were righteous in their own life, that pilgrimage will be worth making.
 
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