Meanings
adjectiveDemeterian (not comparable)
- not comparableOf or relating to the Ancient Greek goddess Demeter.
We cannot tell whether the walls of Çatal Hüyük were raised in Demeterian rites, as the architecture of the womb, or whether they were raised in martial orders, as the architecture of defense.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, quoting J.J. Bachoven, Myth, Religion, and Mother Right, 1967, p. 196, quoted in The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 140
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