Demeter features on the Great Seal of North Carolina

The most significant Demeter myth is the disappearance and reappearance of her daughter Persephone, and as a result, Demeter is frequently seen with or looking for her. Greek pottery as early as the sixth century BCE depicts Demeter. According to the legend that she is looking for her daughter, she is frequently depicted robed and occasionally holding a torch. Demeter is frequently shown in post-classical artwork as an allegory for the earth's fertility. Jacob Jordaens' 1620 painting Offering to Ceres and Jean Arp's 1960 sculpture Demeter are two examples of such representations.

Similar to this, Demeter is portrayed in popular culture as a significant deity to humans who is in charge of agricultural productivity and regulates seasonal variations. Demeter is depicted as clutching onto three stalks of wheat and seated on the horn of abundance, a hollow horn loaded with endless gifts of festive fruit, in the figure Plenty on the Great Seal of North Carolina. On May 31, 1929, German astronomer Karl Reinmuth discovered an asteroid that would later be known as 1108 Demeter.