In 2023, the Eleusinian mysteries experienced a modern revival in modern Elefsina as part of the city's bid for the European Capital of Culture. In an effort to transform Elefsina into a cultural asset, Greece hosted a year-long festival featuring multimedia installations, dance displays, and scholarly conferences, exploring themes such as the Eleusinian mysteries and the town's industrial challenges. [92] Notable participants [ edit ] Timeline of Art History: Italian Peninsula, 1000 BC – 1 AD". The Metropolitan Museum of Art . Retrieved July 26, 2007. Kerényi, Karl. Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter, Bollingen Foundation, 1967. ISBN 0-691-01915-0. Brisson, Luc and Tihanyi, Catherine, 2004. How Philosophers Saved Myths: Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-07535-4

Stephen R. Berlant (2005). "The entheomycological origin of Egyptian crowns and the esoteric underpinnings of Egyptian religion". J Ethnopharmacol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 102 (2): 275–88. doi: 10.1016/j.jep.2005.07.028. PMID 16199133. S2CID 19297225. In the central foundation document of the mystery, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter line 415, Persephone is said to stay in Hades during winter and return to her mother in the spring of the year: "This was the day [of Persephone's return], at the very beginning of bountiful springtime." [19] Hierophantes – male high priest, an office inherited within the Phileidae or Eumolpidae families. [46]According to historian Hans Kloft, despite the destruction of the Eleusinian Mysteries, elements of the cult survived in the Greek countryside. There, local peasants and shepherds partially transferred Demeter's rites and religious duties onto Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki, who gradually became the local patron of agriculture and "heir" to the pagan mother goddess. [70] In art, literature, and culture [ edit ] The Eleusinian Mysteries Hydria, showing the reunion of Demeter and Persephone at the start of each spring The Eleusinian Mysteries are believed to be of considerable antiquity. Some findings in the temple Eleusinion in Attica suggest that their basis was an old agrarian cult. [23] Some practices of the mysteries seem to have been influenced by the religious practices of the Mycenaean period, thus predating the Greek Dark Ages. [3] [4] Excavations showed that a private building existed under the Telesterion in the Mycenean period, and it seems that originally the cult of Demeter was private. In the Homeric Hymn is mentioned the palace of the king Keleos. [24]

You know you were singing that unavoidable Miley Cyrus song, so don’t pretend otherwise. It’s catchy, and more, the message is one I’ve seen more and more people take seriously: there is something worthwhile in buying yourself flowers. I’ve been a big fan of it since becoming an adult, and though I don’t do it at every grocery trip, I try to once a month or so when the outside world is not yet flush with fresh flora. Though I keep my flowers in a giant terrazzo pitcher, I can’t lie: I’ve been tempted several times to snag a bookish vase to add to my window. Panageis ('the holy') or melissae ('bees') – a group of priestesses who lived a life secluded from men. [46] Combined, these three elements were known as the aporrheta (unrepeatables); the penalty for divulging them was death. Cosmopoulos, Michael (2015). Bronze Age Eleusis and the Origins of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-316-36823-7.The outline below is only a capsule summary; much of the concrete information about the Eleusinian Mysteries was never written down. For example, only initiates knew what the kiste, a sacred chest, and the calathus, a lidded basket, contained. NOT ONLY FOR FLOWER VASES - the aesthetic vase is clean, simple and elegant look with transparent colors can blend with anywhere, which will add more vigor and sophistication to your room. It will be a great choice for bookshelf centerpiece, living room and bedroom decor, dining table decorations, office decor, house decor, modern decor, neutral home decor, boho home decor and so on. Tripolitis, Antonia. Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Age. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, November 2001. pp. 16–21.

On the 17th, the participants began the Epidauria, a festival for Asklepios named after his main sanctuary at Epidauros. This "festival within a festival" celebrated the healer's arrival at Athens with his daughter Hygieia, and consisted of a procession leading to the Eleusinion, during which the mystai apparently stayed at home, a great sacrifice, and an all-night feast ( pannykhís). [49] Kerenyi, Carl. Eleusis – Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter. Bollingen Foundation 1967, p. 48. deiknumena (things shown), displayed sacred objects, in which the hierophant played an essential role

Persephone's rebirth is symbolic of the rebirth of all plant life and the symbol of eternity of life that flows from the generations that spring from each other. [20] a b "The Eleusinian Mysteries: The Rites of Demeter". World History Encyclopedia . Retrieved 27 April 2019. Cosmopoulos, M. B. (ed.), Greek mysteries. The archaeology and ritual of ancient Greek secret cults, Psychology Press: Londres-Nueva York, 2003. So where is this masterpiece of ancient art today – and why is it not on display in one of the world’s great museums? According to Bonhams, who say that it was never for sale, the vase, which is broken, was consigned for study, restoration and “public exposure” before being returned to its owner. Its provenance is unknown, but, according to experts, the consignor was the daughter of a dead European collector, who was given the vase by an Italian friend soon after the Second World War. The name of the city Eleusis is Pre-Greek, and may be related with the name of the goddess Eileithyia. [10] Her name Ἐλυσία ( Elysia) in Laconia and Messene, probably relates her with the month Eleusinios and Eleusis, [11] but this is debated. [12]

However, a scholar has proposed a different version, [21] according to which the four months during which Persephone is with Hades correspond to the dry Greek summer, a period during which plants are threatened with drought. [22] Mysteries [ edit ] Demeter, enthroned and extending her hand in a benediction toward the kneeling Metaneira, who offers the triune wheat that is a recurring symbol of the mysteries ( Varrese Painter, red-figure hydria, c. 340 BC, from Apulia) One line of thought by modern scholars has been that the Mysteries were intended "to elevate man above the human sphere into the divine and to assure his redemption by making him a god and so conferring immortality upon him". [25] Mylonas, George E. (1966). Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age. Princeton University Press. p.159. ISBN 978-0691035239. Julie Kovacs, The nightmare continues in With the People from the Bridge. Exercise Bowler, Issue 21, 2015. http://exercisebowler.com/issue21.htmMetzner, Ralph. "The Reunification of the Sacred and the natural". Eleusis Volume VIII, 1997. pp. 3–13 Evans, Nancy (2002-01-01). "Sanctuaries, Sacrifices, and the Eleusinian Mysteries". Numen. 49 (3): 227–254. doi: 10.1163/156852702320263927. ISSN 1568-5276. It is the single most important piece of glass to appear since the Portland Vase,” explains the glassmaker David Hill, one of seven people invited to the British Museum to inspect the object alongside the Portland Vase and the Auldjo Jug. “It’s as if the matching pair to Michelangelo’s David suddenly turned up out of nowhere – only this time, it’s Goliath. It dwarfs the Portland Vase.” Clinton, Kevin (1974). "The Sacred Officials of the Eleusinian Mysteries". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 64 (3): 1–143. doi: 10.2307/1006226. ISSN 0065-9746. JSTOR 1006226.