Eleusinian Mysteries
Eleusinian Mysteries proper noun: initiations held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone, based at Eleusis in ancient Greece, now named Elefsina.
Proper noun
Eleusinian Mysteries
- Initiations held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone, based at Eleusis in ancient Greece, now named Elefsina.
Noun capitalized: Eleusinian mysteries
Eleusinian mysteries pl (plural only)
- 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.1978, Joseph Campbell, The Mysteries, page 22
- Their origins are in the ancient Greek cult, in particular the most famous one, the Eleusinian mysteries.1983, Walter Burkert, Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Rigual and Myth, page 248
Origin of Eleusinian Mysteries
Calque of Ancient Greek Ἐλευσίνια Μυστήρια (Eleusínia Mustḗria).
Questions about Eleusinian Mysteries
- What does Eleusinian Mysteries mean?
- Eleusinian Mysteries means initiations held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone, based at Eleusis in ancient Greece, now named Elefsina.
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- Eleusinian Mysteries can be a proper noun or a noun.
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