A local name for the Greek goddess Demeter. She was a goddess of fertility, her name meaning “apple-bearer,” The remains of a sanctuary to her exist in Sicily near the river Modione.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Pamela Chen and Samantha Blossom, authors of the new The Mandarin Tree.
As modern Asian American mystics, we love to work with the heavenly creatures, or what you may know as mystical beings in...