Metanira

Metaneira (Greek Μετάνειρα ) In Greek mythology, the mother of Demophon and Triptolemos the wife of Celeus and. She took the goddess Demeter upon their arrival in Attica.

In the same role a woman named Misme, mother of Askalabos appears in Ovid and Antoninus liberalism. She also refers to the goddess and hands her the Kykeon, a mixing Rank, which the greedy exhausted empties, and she is mocked by Askalabos. The wrathful goddess turned on the Askalabos into a lizard. In the opinion of Karl Müller Misme is to identify with the Orphic - Eleusinian Mise.

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• Homeric Hymn to Demeter 2 161
• Libraries of Apollodorus 1.5
• Ovid Metamorphoses 5, 450
• Antoninus Liberalis Metamorphoses 23