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| | ipedia.com: Eleusinian mysteries Article |
 | | Diocles, Eumolpos, Triptolemus and Polyxeinus were the others of the first priests. | | | In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Celeus was one of the original priests of Demeter, one of the first people to learn the secret rites and mysteries of her cult. | | | Celeus was a king whose son, Triptolemus, learned the art of agriculture from Demeter and taught it to the rest of Greece. |
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| | Triptolemus |
| | According to the Homeric Hymn to Demeter (anonymous text of the 7th century BCE) Triptolemos was one of the men who had great power and honor in Eleusis and was one of the chiefs among the people, protecting the city by their wisdom and true judgements. | | | The Hymn also gives us the information that Triptolemos together with Diocles, Eumolpos, Keleus and Polyxeinus learned the mysteries and rites of the goddess Demeter. | | | The later tradition, spread out by the Athenians, connected Triptolemos with the first civilization in Eleusis, cultivating the grain, a gift of Demeter. |
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