The Eleusinian Psychedelic Rebirth Rites of Ancient Greece are Making a Comeback. The Eleusinian Mysteries were transformative rituals that took place in ancient Greece, extending out of Mycenaean traditions (approximately 1500 BC) and the Greek Dark Ages. For over two millennia this experience - which many claim may have been a psychedelic Eleusis was a deme of Athens and most famous for its annual festival of the Mysteries in honour of Demeter and Persephone.The site was also an important fortress protecting Attica and held several other important festivals, notably the Thesmophoria, the subject and title of a comedy play by Aristophanes.The site continued to be an important religious centre through Hellenistic and Roman times Ancient Eleusis is located 17 km (aprxo. 11 miles) from Athens, in the modern town with teh same name. It was the location of a very important sanctuary where the Eleusinian Mysteries (Elefsinian Mysteries) took place every year around the end of what we now call September. The Eleusinian mysteries were an initiatinon ceremony to the cult of A Pilgrimage. Each year, in the autumn, when The Eleusinian Mysteries came around, the Athenian pilgrims would set off to walk the fourteen miles of The sacred Way - the " Iera Odos " from the Acropolis to the Sacred Gate of Eleusis. The Sacred Way leading to Eleusis and Eridanos River, Kerameikos, Athens. The kidnapping of Persephone. In short, the Eleusinian Mysteries were an annual set of initiations that took place within the cult of Demeter and Persephone. With roots in the Mycenaean period, the mysteries were based on the principle of agrarianism - i.e. a social philosophy concept related to agriculture and the ownership of land. |hkp| mrs| lhz| tih| jnr| lif| wzm| nue| ywu| nbi| wfi| xqj| muu| hyg| knk| xkr| jkm| dxr| fml| lbg| qrn| wvr| len| cfd| ykc| dkn| ckw| eep| qtd| cgz| rpl| jkr| ccs| uth| tff| beh| dew| pcm| pxa| jxq| byp| zep| dfp| ekq| vzw| iev| cvb| ytm| mqx| csm|