Unicorn Goddess Demeter is the Greek Goddess of grain and harvest, of the seasons and is also an ancient mother goddess. You can download and color Unicorn Goddess Demeter by clicking on her name.
Like many of the Unicorn Goddesses featured on Unicorn Coloring Club, Unicorn Goddess Demeter is a much more anicent goddess than what we think of her today. She is best known to us for the Greek myth about her and her daughter Persephone, who is kidnapped by Hades and is forced to be in the underworld as his captive. Demeter is so distraught she does nothing but look for her daughter day in and day out. In her despair, she neglects to keep the world alive and all of the vegetation dies, causing the first winter. The God’s decide this has gone far enough and with the help of Mercury, Demeter finds her daughter and Hades relents to let her leave. But, because Persephone had eaten a few pomegranite seeds in the Underworld, she has to return once a year to live with her Husband in Hades and while she is gone, Demeter goes into mourning and the Earth dives into winter once again.
However, Demeter’s name can be traced back to Proto Indo-European, where “méh ter” means “mother.” Clearly she has been around a long time and her gifts and attributes to being the source of life on Earth definitely supports that. So here she is, in all of her Unicorn Goddess glory. She carries with her a sheaf of wheat and is adorned with beautiful poppies, the flowers used in the Eleusinian mysteries that Demeter was the patron goddess of.
Unicorn Goddess Hel is the Nordic Goddess of the Underworld. She is the daughter of Loki and the Giantess Angrboda and she is also sister to Fenrir, the giant wolf, and Jormungand, the world serpent. She is half white and half black, half alive and half dead. I gave her the symbols of Scorpio as well to honor the time of year that we devote to our dead in our culture. Her scythe is also a magical staff and the pole is in the shape of the scorpion itself. At the end of the staff there are two jewels, a sphere for telling the future and a gem for purification. It’s symbolism to acknowledge that we must all turn inward and examine ourselves in full, both the light and the dark, the brightness and our shadows to have a true transformation and true growth.