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Eleusinian Mysteries

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Etymology

Calque of Ancient Greek Ἐλευσίνια Μυστήρια (Eleusínia Mustḗria).

  1. calqued from Ἐλευσίνια Μυστήρια

Definitions

  1. Initiations held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone, based at Eleusis in…

    Initiations held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone, based at Eleusis in ancient Greece, now named Elefsina.

  2. Alternative form of Eleusinian Mysteries.

    • This, to be sure, was an error in interpretation, but it made it possible to associate with the Eleusinian mysteries also a notion familiar from other contexts, the notion of mystical rebirth as a child of the godhead.
    • Their origins are in the ancient Greek cult, in particular the most famous one, the Eleusinian mysteries.

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