Eleusinian Mysteries

Greek mystery cults – ancient Greece
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Greek mystery cults – ancient Greece

Greeks, Religion

13 07, 2017

Greek mystery cults – ancient Greece

By Karen Carr|2018-04-23T10:04:50-07:00July 13th, 2017|Greeks, Religion|Comments Off on Greek mystery cults – ancient Greece

Torchlight parade (this one is actually in India) Most Greek religious rituals were about sacrifice to the gods. But there was another form of religious activity also, which we call the mystery cults. [...]

Eleusinian Mysteries – a Greek mystery cult
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Eleusinian Mysteries – a Greek mystery cult

Greeks, Religion

13 07, 2017

Eleusinian Mysteries – a Greek mystery cult

By Karen Carr|2019-05-27T14:00:32-07:00July 13th, 2017|Greeks, Religion|Comments Off on Eleusinian Mysteries – a Greek mystery cult

Eleusinian Mysteries: Demeter, Persephone, and Triptolemos (the boy), an 1899 drawing from a stone carving found at Eleusis . When did the Eleusinian Mysteries start? Beginning at least as early [...]