Demeter and Persephone The Earth Mother, The Bride of Death, and The Eleusinian Mysteries.
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Demeter Eleusinia
Paige Hackney
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Who was Demeter?
• Goddess of Harvest and fertility of crops
• Mother to Persephone (Kore, the maid)
• Homeric Hymn of Demeter
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Mysteries
• Secret, initiation- type rituals
• Travel to be initiated • We know very little • Fasting, drinking and
jesting• Punishments for
revealing mysteries• Boedromion 15-22
“the awful mysteries not to be transgressed, violated,or divulged, because the tongue is restrained by reverence for the gods”
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Mysteries Cont.
• Multiple sacrifices to multiple deities
• Male priests played a major role
• Hierophant • Eumolpidae and
Ceryces• Lesser Mysteries
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Sanctuary of Demeter
• Telesterion• Planting grain• Separation and
reunion• Brimus/Ploutos
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“Demeter was kindly disposed of our ancestors, and she gave them two gifts which are the greatest: the fruits which make it possible for us to live not like animals, and the initiation, and those who partake of the initiation have sweeter hopes about the end od life and all eternity”
-Panegyricus