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Eleusinian Mysteries

Rituals

The named Greek mystery initiation of Demeter and Persephone at Eleusis. Not Dionysian mysteries as a different cult, and not generic mystery-religion as a textbook class.

Also known as Eleusinia · Mysteries of Eleusis

Hellenic religion

  • Eleusinian Mysteries appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias names the Eleusinian Mysteries as Attic initiation while refusing to publish the secret rites. A named Mysteries lemma in that periegesis, not Eleusis the town alone and not every mystery dump.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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