concept
kykeon
also: κυκεών
A ritual drink of barley-meal, water, and pennyroyal that Demeter, in disguise, asks for instead of wine; the same drink later broke the fast of initiates at the Eleusinian Mysteries.
Reading notes
- The Homeric Hymns §2.170 kykeon
A ritual drink of barley-meal, water, and pennyroyal that Demeter, in disguise, asks for instead of wine; the same drink later broke the fast of initiates at the Eleusinian Mysteries.