Two goddesses, one throne, and everything you're trying to grow.
This is a syncretic piece: Demeter, the Greek grain mother, fused with Fortuna, the Roman goddess of fortune, the two of them governing the same truth from opposite ends. Demeter is the abundance you cultivate: the daughter of Cronus and Rhea, mother of the earth and fertility, who taught humankind to farm and turned a single seed into a warehouse of plenty. Fortuna is the abundance that turns on fate: luck, chance, the wheel that lifts and lowers. Put them on one throne and you get the full picture of prosperity: what you plant and what fate hands you.
The iconography reads straight out of the old sources. She's enthroned and crowned, holding the torch that lit Demeter's search across the world, cradling a cornucopia spilling over with fruit, and a thick sheaf of harvested wheat sits at her feet, the grain that made her the mother of Ploutos, wealth itself. This is the goddess who eventually morphed into Ceres in Roman times, the one whose name still lives in the word cereal. The one who says: may you never hunger.
Who she's for: devotees of Demeter, Ceres, or Fortuna; anyone doing prosperity, abundance, luck, or fertility work; witches marking the harvest sabbats (Lammas, Mabon); growers and gardeners; home-and-hearth practitioners building an altar to provision and plenty; anyone who wants both halves of good fortune — the earned and the granted — on one focal piece.
Why this piece: at 9" in a warm terracotta finish, she has the look of an unearthed antiquity, the deep folds of her robe, the detailed throne, the overflowing basket all rewarding a close look. A commanding centerpiece at a very fair $84 for a statue with this much presence and this much story packed into it.
9" resin, terracotta finish. $84. In-store, local pickup, or shipped.
