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The priesthood officiating at the Eleusinian Mysteries and in the sanctuary was divided into several offices with different tasks. Kerényi, Karl. Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter, Bollingen Foundation, 1967. ISBN 0-691-01915-0. It is immensely important,” agrees Martine Newby, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London who, at the invitation of Bonhams, was the first person to inspect the vase in 2009, reporting her findings in the Glass News journal the following year. “It is indescribable, really – a tour de force. It would be a masterpiece of ancient art of whatever material. It doesn’t matter if it was silver or gold or some of the best frescoes, this would have been one of the most expensive objects that you could possibly have.” Some scholars argued that the Eleusinian cult was a continuation of a Minoan cult, [26] and that Demeter was a poppy goddess who brought the poppy from Crete to Eleusis. [27] [28] Some useful information from the Mycenean period can be taken from the study of the cult of Despoina (the precursor goddess of Persephone) and the cult of Eileithyia, who was the goddess of childbirth. The megaron of Despoina at Lycosura is quite similar to the Telesterion of Eleusis, [29] and Demeter is united with the god Poseidon, bearing a daughter, the unnamable Despoina (the mistress). [30] In the cave of Amnisos at Crete, the goddess Eileithyia is related with the annual birth of the divine child, and she is connected with Enesidaon (The Earth Shaker), [31] who is the chthonic aspect of Poseidon. [32] Smith, William, A New Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, Mythology and Geography Vol. II. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2006. ISBN 1-4286-4561-6.
Another theory is that the psychoactive agent in kykeon is DMT, which occurs in many wild plants of the Mediterranean, including Phalaris and/or Acacia. [90] To be active orally (like in ayahuasca) it must be combined with a monoamine oxidase inhibitor such as Syrian rue ( Peganum harmala), which grows throughout the Mediterranean. According to George Mylonas, the lesser mysteries were held "as a rule once a year in the early spring in the month of flowers, the Anthesterion," while "the Greater Mysteries were held once a year and every fourth year they were celebrated with special splendor in what was known as the penteteris. [41] Kerényi concurs with this assessment: "The Lesser Mysteries were held at Agrai in the month of Anthesterion, our February... The initiates were not even admitted to the epopteia [Greater Mysteries] in the same year, but only in September of the following year." [42] This cycle continued for about two millennia. In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, King Celeus is said to have been one of the first people to learn the secret rites and mysteries of her cult. He was also one of her original priests, along with Diocles, Eumolpos, Polyxeinus, and Triptolemus, Celeus' son, who had supposedly learned agriculture from Demeter. [43] Clinton, Kevin (2005). Eleusis, the Inscriptions on Stone: Documents of the Sanctuary of the Two Goddesses and Public Documents of the Deme. Archaeological Society at Athens. ISBN 978-960-8145-46-7.
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Further information: Demeter Triptolemus receiving wheat sheaves from Demeter and blessings from Persephone, 5th-century BC relief, National Archaeological Museum of Athens Hippolytus of Rome, one of the Church Fathers writing in the early 3rd century AD, discloses in Refutation of All Heresies that "the Athenians, while initiating people into the Eleusinian rites, likewise display to those who are being admitted to the highest grade at these mysteries, the mighty, and marvellous, and most perfect secret suitable for one initiated into the highest mystic truths: an ear of grain in silence reaped." [47] Lesser Mysteries [ edit ]Rosen, Ralph M. "Hipponax fr. 48 DG. and the Eleusinian Kykeon." The American Journal of Philology 108.3 (1987): 416–426. However, several experts I have spoken to suggest that the story behind the vase is murkier and more complicated. After the vase had been studied at the British Museum, there were plans to send it to Cardiff University for scientific analysis. Before it could get there, though, rumours began to emerge that it had been discovered recently in North Africa, and that it was broken when it was found. It even appeared that the vase had been damaged permanently within the past decade – a botched attempt at restoration, perhaps, or, more sinisterly, a sneaky way of passing off a recent restoration as something older, so that the vase would appear authentic. With its provenance in question (for instance, nobody could prove the existence of the shadowy Italian, supposedly a well-to-do family friend who had given it to the consignor’s father), the vase, which could be worth millions of pounds at auction, was quietly returned to its owner. “It was really disappointing,” recalls Newby, “because there I was working on it, and then it was taken away from me, and that was it – the doors were closed.” Persephone is probably the unnamable mistress of the labyrinth (Mycenean ( Linear B) inscription: da-pu-ri-to-jo po-ti-ni-ja) ": Kerényi. Dionysos. Archetypal image of indestructible life. pp. 89, 90. Some hold that the priests were the ones to reveal the visions of the holy night, consisting of a fire that represented the possibility of life after death, and various sacred objects. Others hold this explanation to be insufficient to account for the power and longevity of the mysteries, and that the experiences must have been internal and mediated by a powerful psychoactive ingredient contained in the kykeon drink (see Entheogenic theories below).
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