rebirth or with going into the underworld and coming out alive. Demeter (identified with the Roman Ceres; 5.123) was a grain goddess whose main sanctuary was a few miles outside Athens at Eleusis, from which her cult is usually called the Eleusinian mysteries (5.118; 5.122). The association of grain or vegetation of any type with death and rebirth is not difficult to make. Each year the seed is put into the ground (buried) and comes up again (rebirth, resurrection). This was a familiar symbol to