concept
the Eleusinian Mysteries
the Mysteries
also: ὄργια, rites
The secret initiatory rites Demeter founds at Eleusis and teaches to its lords; the hymn promises a blessed afterlot to the initiated and calls it forbidden to describe, matching what is known of the historical Mysteries celebrated there for over a thousand years.
Reading notes
- The Homeric Hymns §2.473 mysteries
The secret initiatory rites Demeter founds at Eleusis and teaches to its lords; the hymn promises a blessed afterlot to the initiated and calls it forbidden to describe, matching what is known of the historical Mysteries celebrated there for over a thousand years.