CLAA06H3 Chapter 10-13: Chapters 10-13
6 Aug 2014
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Persephone stays a 3rd of the year with hades and the rest in the world above: eleusinian mysteries: the most famous religious cults of the ancient world that stated the promise of regeneration through the power of demeter, the word mystery came from this eleusinian cult to demeter meaning, the one who closes the eyes or mouth in order to enter the temple or closes them during sacred rites, the origin of the mysteries seem to have been an agrarian (agricultural) festival designed to promote the growth of the grain, advocated no doctrine, but were the most honored cult of greek religion, giving hope and comfort, triptolemus: one of the princes of eleusis to whom demeter taught her secret rites, he was said to have mounted a chariot drawn by dragons and traveled over the whole world teaching the art of growing grain.
