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| | Mystery religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | As in Gnosticism, gnosis, "knowledge", is conveyed experientially, thus mysteries and mystery religions do not produce a body of scripture that is claimed to be "revealed" by the prophet of a deity. | | | A mystery religion is any religion with an arcanum, or body of secret wisdom. | | | In a mystery religion, an inner core of beliefs, practices, and the religion's true nature, are revealed only to those who have been initiated into its secrets. |
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| | Eleusinian Mysteries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The last remnants of the Mysteries were wiped out in CE 396, when Alaric, King of the Goths, invaded accompanied by Christians "in their dark garments", bringing Arian Christianity and desecrating the old sacred sites. | | | Following this section of the Mysteries was the Pannychis, an all-night feast accompanied by dancing and merriment. | | | The first act (14th Boedromion) of the Greater Mysteries was the bringing of the sacred objects from Eleusis to the Eleusinion, a temple at the base of the Acropolis. |
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| | The Eleusinian Mysteries & Rites:Wright, Dudley:0892540702:eCampus.com |
| | Yet strikingly similar rituals and legends appear in the doctrines of Freemasonry, Buddhism, the early Church, and other religions and spiritual traditions.In The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites Dudley Wright explains the core mythology of Demeter and the many stories thought to be born of the myth. | | | The Eleusinian rites are thought to have emerged from the Greek myth of the goddess Demeter and her daughter Persephone to bring forth abundance from the earth. | | | He includes an examination of the Ritual of the Mysteries, when and how they are carried out, the rites of initiation and their mystical significance.Examination of the myth of Demeter and her daughter Persephone shed light on the spiritual lives of many ancient cultures. |
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| | The Secret of the Eleusinian Mysteries Unveiled |
| | The poem describes the mythical founding of the Mystery by Demeter, who was grief-stricken at the abduction of her daughter Persephone (also called Kore) by the god Hades, of the underworld. | | | Classical scholar G.E. Mylonas, for example wrote a detailed book on Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries, and concluded that: "the act of drinking the kykeon was one of religious remembrance, of the observance of an act of the Goddess, and implied no sacramental mystic significance," (Mytonas 1961). | | | The Eleusinian Mysteries were driven into extinction by the Christians in the fourth century of our era. |
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| | Eleusis |
| | Eleusis is the place, where the cult of the goddess Demeter existed many centuries and where the most famous religious festival, called the Eleusinian mysteries were performed in the honour of this deity. | | | According to the "Homeric Hymn to Demeter" (7th century BCE), when the goddess Demeter was desparetely looking for her daughter (=Kore) Persephone -kidnapped by Aidoneus (Hades)- during her wandering she came to the city Eleusis. | | | The Eleusinian Mysteries had their fixed place in the calendar. |
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| | AskWhy! on The Eleusinian Mysteries - Christianity Revealed |
| | The myth associated with the Eleusinian Mysteries, by the seventh century BC, was that Pluto (Hades), the god of the underworld, fell in love with Persephone (Kore or Cora, the maid). | | | The Eleusinian Mysteries involved the mystai washing and sacrificing piglets sacred to Demeter. | | | This shows that the Mysteries were never really separate religions but closely related ones, using the same or similar themes but having different emphases in the temples of different gods and goddesses. |
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| | Eleusis, Greek Mythology Link. |
| | The mysteries and the rites were brought to other cities: For example Phlyus, who was a son of Gaia had a son Celaenus 1, who was father of Caucon 2, the man who brought the rites of the Great Goddesses from Eleusis to Messenia under the reign of Polycaon 1 and Messene. | | | The Phliasians, who lived near Sicyon close to the Isthmus of Corinth, have claimed that the mysteries were first established in Eleusis by Celeus 1's brother Dysaules, who was expelled from Eleusis by Ion 1 during the war. | | | But some refuse to believe that these two were related, and say instead that the mysteries were taught by Demeter to Triptolemus, Diocles 2, and Celeus 1. |
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| | Mysteries |
| | The Eleusinian Mysteries centred on the belief in the agricultural fertility and the cycle of the seasons, which inclued the myth of two goddesses, Demeter and her daughter, Kore, or Persephone as she was often known as the goddess of the Underworld. | | | The Orphic cult or mystery religion was named after its supposed founder, the mythical Thracian singer, Orpheus, who was either the son of the god Apollo or that of the Thracian king Oeagrus. | | | Much of the myth about Demeter and her daughter can be found in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, which gives an account of Kore's abduction by Hades, the ruler of the netherworld (Underworld), and the compromise between Demeter and Hades, to allow Kore to live alternately with her mother and husband. |
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| | fUSION Anomaly. Eleusinian Mysteries |
| | Eleusinian Mysteries, sacred rituals that were the most important of ancient Greek religious festivals. | | | Meditation is a preparation for the same goal that was aspired to and was attained in the Eleusinian Mysteries. | | | The ceremonies included a priest's address to the mystoe, the initiation candidates; a cleansing in the sea; a sacrificial rite; and a procession from Athens to Eleusis, where the initiation occurred in secret ceremonies. |
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| | The Eleusinian Mysteries |
| | The Mysteries were celebrated at Eleusis, from around 1500 BCE to the fourth century CE, in honour of the goddess Demeter and her daughter Persephone. | | | After Persephone's abduction by Hades, god of the underworld, Demeter left Olympus and vowed never to return, nor to allow crops to grow on earth until she and her daughter were reunited. | | | On the sixth night, cloaked in secrecy, the climax of the Eleusinian ceremony took place in the inner sanctum of the temple, into which only priests and initiates could enter,. |
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| | Eleusinian Mysteries - Earthlore Explorations Historic Mysteries Foundation Stone of Learning |
| | What differentiated the newer mysteries from their primitive forebears was the central premise that individuals had the right to make personal choices and opinions regarding spiritual belief. | | | he concept of religious individualism was seeded by the mysteries of Orpheus, known as the Orphic tradition. | | | Yet, it seems natural considering the great mystery contained in the processes of birth, growth, death and regeneration. |
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| | Eleusinian Mysteries |
| | In the light of this spirit the ceremonies of the celebration of the Eleusinian Mysteries are seen contemplated in their true aspect and as an integral factor in all that made for the diviner life as increasingly attained and revealed by the human life. | | | It would be claiming far too much to affirm that the Mysteries of Eleusis were wholly a spiritual rite, in the sense of modern under-standing of spiritual enlightenment; yet, as Dr. Kingsford said, in her address to the British Theosophical Society in 1883: | | | It was not because the ceremony consisted of mysteries, of hidden acts and words, which it was impious to reveal, and which the initiated alone might know. |
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| | Has the Mystery of the Eleusinian Mysteries been solved? |
| | Researchers who attempted to solve the Eleusinian mystery according to the Hymn to Demeter directed their attention to barley since few if any mints are psychoactive. | | | In this building the most important part of the ritual is supposed to have occurred: the ingestion of the kykeon, the mysterious sacrament that caused in participants intensive psychic changes, which cleared their souls, and made them accept death not so much as harm as a blessing, as one of the ancient diarists reported. | | | According to the tradition the goddess Demeter was said to have been reunited here with her daughter Kore, who was also known as Persephone, after she had been kidnapped by the god of the underworld Pluto. |
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| | Mylonas/eleusi |
| | Consequently, the cult came to be known as the mysteries of Demeter, or the Eleusinian mysteries. | | | On the basis of those remarks have been advanced a number of theories as to the nature of the Eleusinian mysteries, and the assumption was established that the mysteries were of a licentious, orgiastic nature. | | | We know that the mysteries were of three parts: the dromena, the things which were enacted; the deiknymena, the things which were shown; and the legomena, the things which were explained. |
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| | Roman Calendar - September |
| | Plutarch said of the Eleusinian Mysteries, "When a man dies he is like those who are being initiated into the mysteries...Our whole life is but a succession of wanderings and painful courses...but as soon as we exit, places of purity receive us, with songs and dance and the solemnities of holy words and sacred visions." | | | These rites, the Eleusinian Mysteries, surpassed all other Greek religious celebrations in their solemnity and splendor. |
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| | And though the Eleusinian Mysteries are the rites of Demeter, the earth goddess does not, herself, descend into the underworld. | | | • Birth and Rebirth in the Eleusinian Mysteries | | | At this point in the Mysteries, one begins the long climb back to the earthy realm of the Mother, of Demeter, carrying the old wisdom like a great fire, or a small seed that will be planted again. |
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| | THE MYSTERIES OF ELEUSIS: Interpretation by Sanderson Beck |
| | The Eleusinian Mysteries are a beautiful example of the spiritual nature of the Mother-Daughter archetype. | | | The second is even a greater mystery and has to do with initiation into divine life or the soul realm achieved while alive on earth and practiced on the higher planes of consciousness after the new birth. | | | But for your mysteries which speech may not profane, you shall mark them for yourself, when you come to that place alone; and when you are coming to the end of life, disclose them to your heir alone; let him teach his heir; and so thenceforth. |
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| | Mystery Centres: Lecture X: The Chthonic and the Eleusinian Mysteries |
| | In this way the Greek disciple learned to understand the Mystery of Christ in a pre-Christian period; again it was in a spiritual way that the Christ was placed before those to be initiated into the Mysteries of Eleusis. | | | Of these it was said that they had knowledge and had been initiated into the Mysteries of the Father, the Mysteries of Zeus, and also that they had been admitted into the Mysteries of the Mother, the Mysteries of Demeter. | | | We pointed to the Being of Christ in the Mysteries of Hibernia. |
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| | Bryn Mawr Classical Review 04.03.22 |
| | Eleusinian Gods (Introduction; The Youth in the Great Eleusinian Relief; Eubouleus; Eubouleus, the Thesmophoria, and the Mysteries), 3. | | | More Gods, the Scenes, and the Myth of the Mysteries (Iakchos; Eubouleus in the Fifth Century; The Ninnion Tablet; Eumolpos; Interpretation of Eleusinian Scenes; The Sacred Drama; Artistic Representations and the Secrets of the Mysteries; The Birth of a Child in the Mysteries), 4. | | | The negative argument is quite persuasive: the Hymn has nothing about Eubouleus who plays a major part in the Mysteries (and not much about Triptolemos or Eumolpos), but it has a lot about Hecate, Demophon and Iambe who do not. |
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| | Pagan Regeneration: Chapter II: The Greater Mysteries At Eleusis |
| | Nevertheless, it is undeniable that the mysteries of Demeter did exercise a salutary influence in the matter of practical living. | | | Cicero said of them, "In the mysteries we learn not only to live happily but to die with fairer hope." Thus, the mythical experiences of the Eleusinian goddesses in breaking the power of death became the basis for a definite assurance of a happy life beyond the grave. | | | Seutonius also tells us that when Nero was in Greece, "he dared not attend the Eleusinian Mysteries at the initiation of which impious and wicked persons are warned by the voice of the herald from approaching the rites." However, there were other emperors who like Augustus attained the goal which Nero failed to gain. |
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| | The Eleusinian Mysteries - School of the Seasons |
| | It was said of those who were initiated at Eleusis that they no longer feared death and it seems that this myth confirms the cyclical view of life central to pagan spirituality: that death is part of the cycle of life and is always followed by rebirth. | | | The Eleusinian Mysteries began on the 15th day of the Greek lunar month of Boedromion and ended nine days later. | | | I approached the confines of Death, and, having trodden on the threshold of Proserpina, returned, having been carried through all the elements, to the depths of midnight I saw the sun glittering with a splendid light, together with the infernal and supernal gods, and to these divinities approaching, I paid the tribute of devout adoration. |
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| | Cosmic Mysteries of Mithras Mithraism Ancient Religion |
| | The reason for this is that the name of the god worshipped in the cult, Mithras, is a Greek and Latin form of the name of an ancient Iranian god, Mithra; in addition, Roman authors themselves expressed a belief that the cult was Iranian in origin. | | | However, Greco-Roman astronomy at the time of the Mithraic mysteries was based on a so-called "geocentric" cosmology, according to which the earth was fixed and immovable at the center of the universe and everything went around it. | | | First, like the other ancient "mystery religions," such as the Eleusinian mysteries and the mysteries of Isis, Mithraism maintained strict secrecy about its teachings and practices, revealing them only to initiates. |
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| | The preceding chapters have presented an argument that the Eleusinian Mysteries were a shamanistic religious observance marked in particular by the ritual employment of entheogens in order to convey the experience of transcendence in a ritual context. | | | Therefore, one key for an Eleusinian revival is demonstrating that a revived Eleusinian Rite meets all the criteria found necessary to judge the peyote religion authentic, as in People v. | | | I have decided as part of my own ethnic and spiritual heritage, to attempt to revive the Eleusinian Mysteries. |
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| | Reflection on Eleusinian Mysteries |
| | In Tuesday’s Classical Mythology and Religion class, we learned about the Eleusinian Mysteries, and the process of the rituals that were performed. | | | However, some ceremonies which I have participated in, such as my first communion or confirmation into the Catholic Church, could be compared to these mysteries. | | | I’m wondering if religious festivals that can be seen in Mexico and Brazil could be considered similar to the Eleusinian Mysteries. |
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| | 09/24/02: Re: The Eleusinian Mysteries. A little more |
| | The Ceremony of the Eleusian Mysteries took place over nine days in the month of Boedromion. | | | Day 3, Boedromion 17: This day commemorates the god Asclepius' late arrival at the Mysteries, and this day is reserved for late comers. | | | Day 2, Boedromion 16: On this day the Initiates bathed in the sea off Phaleron with their piglets.Later in the ceremony these pigs will be sacrificed. |
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| | The Eleusinian Mysteries |
| | The festival of the Elusinian mysteries was held every year in honour of Demeter, goddess of grain, and her daughter Persephone. | | | Sadly, the mysteries remain mysterious; the worshippers kept most of their secrets. | | | At Eleusis worshippers, for a fee, became Initiates of the mysteries, by attending a sacred and secret rite. |
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| | The Eleusinian Mysteries |
| | The Eleusinian Mysteries: To Die is to be Initiated | | | Imagine the great hall of mysteries shrouded in darkness, thronged with people, waiting in stillness. | | | The Epopteia also contained the showing of hiera, though we do not know what these sacred objects were. |
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| | The Eleusinian Mysteries of Antiquity |
| | the mystery religions and their loss to the world forever. | | | The study of the mystery religions of classical antiquity is a major | | | Sixth Century and was associated with Pythagoras and the mysteries of |
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| | Demeter through Oresteia |
| | Questions on Demeter, Eleusinian Mysteries, Orphism, Mystery religion, the Underworld. | | | Review Questions on Demeter, the Eleusinian Mysteries, Orphism, Mystery Religion, the Greek Underworld, the Myths of Thebes, the Mycenaean Saga and the Oresteia. | | | In Aristophanes' Frogs, in the underworld Dionysos meets those who have participated in what mystery religion? |
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| | THE MYSTERIES OF ELEUSIS: Contents and Introduction by Sanderson Beck |
| | The Eleusinian Mysteries (and also those of Isis) seem to have been set apart from the primordial mother cults of archaic cultures by their highly evolved spiritual connotations, though they may very well have evolved out of primitive forerunners. | | | In humility and with due reverence for their sacred character, may we attempt to penetrate those mysteries which have been hidden from human view for many centuries and inevitably draw closer to those greater mysteries of which no mortal has knowledge, for the true comprehension of them would imply immortality. | | | First I speak of the secret mystical rites practiced in antiquity releasing from their minds the fear of death, and giving them a glimpse at understanding the eternal regeneration of the spiritual life. |
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| | My Atrium |
| | This myth, as found in the Homeric Hymn, is essential to the Eleusinian mysteries. | | | With these words from the Homeric Hymn to Demeter the Eleusinian mysteries were born. | | | As a result, Demeter becomes angry and claims that she was going to make the son a god, but now it is too late. |
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| | Eleusinian mysteries |
| | The mysteries existed from Mycenaean times (circa 1600-1200 BCE), thought to have been established in the 1500s BCE and held annually for two thousand years. | | | The "Mysteries" were given this name (in Greek musteriai, from mustes, ("an initiate"). | | | This brought Christianity to the region, and all cult worship was forbidden. |
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| | The Eleusinian Mysteries By Rev |
| | August and ancient Hecate, the midwife dwelt also beneath the earth, and when Persephone's time grew near, the wise crone came to her. | | | The Flower-faced One accepted the Other within her and became a woman ripe with new life--the Divine Child. | | | "Daughter," she said, "Hades has taught you the mysteries of polarity. |
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| | Festivals |
| | In accord with ancient tradition, initiation into the Lesser Mysteries is a necessary prerequisite to initiation into the most sacred rites of the Greater Mysteries. | | | Only initiates of the Lesser Mysteries were allowed to participate in the Greater Mysteries. | | | Also, please remember that this is a serious religious and meditative experience, and is therefore not appropriate for small children or infants. |
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| | The Great Eleusinian Mysteries |
| | It should be noted that so-called "Mysteries" have been found in other parts of the world. | | | The term "mystery" bears a special meaning in the study of Classical religion, From the Greek we get mystae meaning "initiate." See A. Nockers (IV,2,46); also GrTrFr 1,2.43; and J.Sch.Cl.St., 8 #35 (254n21, "Gesundenheitz und Gersprechen in dem Trinkenische Qualitatswein mit Pradikat", Jones). | | | Generally the use of one word with two different meanings within the same sentence is frowned upon by Classics scholars and 8th grade English teachers alike. |
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| | Orphika: The Ancient Mystery Religions |
| | Classical texts or text fragments attributed to the mythical greek singer Orpheus or his son Musaious. | | | A web site dealing with classical mystery religions, focusing on the Orphic, Bacchic and Elusinian mysteries. |
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| | Eleusinian Mysteries -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Discover the beliefs and mysteries surrounding the burial of King Tut. | | | The secret system of determining hidden divine mysteries. | | | More results on "Eleusinian Mysteries" when you join. |
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| | The Eleusinian Mysteries: |
| | At the end of a nineday pilgrimage from Athens to Eleusis, participants, both women and men, deliberately entered Hades in order to gain a vision which sustained them through the rest of their lives. | | | "Thrice blessed are those who have seen these Mysteries for they know the end of life and the beginning." -- Pindar | | | The Eleusinian Mysteries were performed in Greece for two thousand years until their suppression in 396 A.D. From a contemporary viewpoint these mysteries were profound rites of transformation through which one immortalized the soul in this life and the next. |
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| | Eleusis |
| | Comparison: Eleusinian Mysteries and The Jewish High Holy Days | | | From the ashes of the Titans and the blood or Soul power of Dionysius the race of mortal beings was formed...so it is that each man has within himself part of the divine or World Soul. |
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| | Jackson, Sasowsky collaborate on Eleusinian mysteries (12-03-92) |
| | As the nine days of the mysteries pass, Cleo moves from her home in Agrae-"so close to Athens that when the sun goes down, the city seems to rise in front of me"-to Eleusis and back to Athens. | | | Jackson and Sasowsky said the rituals, known as the Eleusinian mysteries, were "the best-kept secret of the ancient world." Participants who discussed the ceremonies were killed, they said. | | | Upon her daughter's kidnapping, Demeter-a vengeful goddess of vegetation-plunged Earth into the desolation of winter, the Greeks believed. |
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| | Dave Fredrick, Eleusinian Mysteries. |
| | Warfare was (ideally, but not always) suspended for the period of the initiations, which took 7 days. | | | The Eleusinian Mysteries were, by the 5th century BCE, open to any Greek speaker, man, woman, or slave, citizen or not of Attica. | | | Two days before the Mysteries began the "holy things" were brought in baskets to Athens by the ephebes, young Athenians in military training (red dots). |
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| | Spring Mysteries Festival |
| | The Spring Mysteries Festival is a recreation of the Eleusinian Mysteries, the ancient initiatory rites of classical Greek Paganism which were conducted in secrecy for over two thousand years before the common era. | | | The Greater Mysteries, which are performed on Saturday evening, are for adults 18 and older who have attended the Lesser Mysteries in a previous year, and for children who are between 12 and 17 years old who have gone through the Young Adult Rites of Passage. | | | For those who have gone through the Lesser Mysteries in a prior year, there is the Greater Mysteries, or Epoptaic Initiation. |
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| | Eleusinian Mysteries |
| | Under the stars will I go forth, my brothers, and drink of that lustral dew: I will return, my brothers, when I have seen God face to face, and read within those eternal eyes the secret that shall make you free. | | | I will put a live coal upon your lips, and flowers upon your eyes, and a sword in your hearts, and ye also shall see God face to face. | | | Then will I choose you and test you and instruct you in the Mysteries of Eleusis, oh ye brave hearts, and cool eyes, and trembling lips! |
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| | Brooklyn College/Classics 0.1/The Eleusinian Mysteries/Names and Days |
| | The complete Homeric Hymn to Demeter, translated by Gregory Nagy, is available at the Diotima web site. | | | For a detailed account of the Eleusinian Mysteries and their possible significance, go to the Ecole Initiative of Edward Beach. | | | mysterion (“mystery,” “that to which the eyes are shut”); mystes (“initiate”), mystagogos (“escorter of an initiate”) |
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| | Contents: Eleusinian legend; Ritual of the mysteries; Program of the greater mysteries; Initiatory rites; Their mystical significance; Bibliography. | | | An investigation of the Eleusinian mysteries, supposed by some to be the predecessors of Masonic rites. | | | You might try modifying your search term or selecting one of the department links below. |
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| | Brooklyn College/Classics 0.1/The Eleusinian Mysteries: Ancient Sources |
| | Where pilgrims come, whose lips the golden key | | | The soul [at the point of death] has the same experience are being initiated into great mysteries. | | | the awful mysteries not to be transgressed, violated |
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| | Eleusinian Mysteries |
| | The Eleusinian Mysteries was an Athenian festival held in honour of the goddess Demeter, and held at Eleusis, 15 miles NW of Athens. | | | The Eleusinian Mysteries was open to all Greek-speaking men, women and slaves as long as they had not murdered anybody. | | | The Mysteries were held in order to provide a happy afterlife (which not many cults had) for the initiates. |
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http://www.historywalker.com/officialpaper/1/HistGrElu.html
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| | My Atrium |
| | References to the mysteries in ancient pagan literature | | | Here in my atrium, you will find some information about the Eleusinian Mysteries of Ancient Greece. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/ia/classicalworld/eleusisintro.html
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| | HistoryWalker Eleusinian Mysteries Slab Hunt Rules |
| | The one who posted the first report for each slab earns one point. | | | You go on a quest for the missing slabs all over the HistoryWalker world. | | | When : Once the "thief" dropped all the slabs somewhere on the map, the announce will be made at the Slab Hunt thread of the Eleusinian Board on September 15th, 2001. |
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http://www.historywalker.com/events/SlabHunt.html
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