The great goddess Demeter, who gives fertility to the earth, herself taught people how to cultivate grain fields. She gave the young son of King Eleusis, Triptolemus, wheat seeds, and he was the first to plow the Rarian field at Eleusis three times with a plow and throw the seeds into the dark ground. The field, blessed by Demeter herself, gave a rich harvest. On a wonderful chariot drawn by winged serpents, Triptolemus, at the command of Demeter, flew around all countries and taught people agriculture everywhere.
Triptolemus was also in distant Scythia with King Linkh. He also taught him farming. But the proud king of the Scythians wanted to take away the glory of the teacher of agriculture from Triptolemus, he wanted to appropriate this glory for himself. Linh decided to kill the great Triptolemus during his sleep. But Demeter did not allow the atrocity to happen. She decided to punish Linh for violating the custom of hospitality and raising his hand against her chosen one.
When Linkh crept into the chamber at night where Triptolemus was sleeping peacefully, Demeter turned the Scythian king into a wild lynx at the very moment when he raised a dagger over the sleeping man.
Linkh, turned into a lynx, disappeared into the dark forests, and Triptolemus left the country of the Scythians in order, carried from country to country on his wonderful chariot, to teach people the great gift of Demeter - agriculture.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru