Eleusinian

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• I take this as a tacit admission that they have two definitions of "function": the sexy definition used to get the attention of Muggles, and the elite definition, totally different, that they think they can transmit to the initiates into the Eleusinian mysteries.

  Blog text (32)

• We cannot forget that while the Littlecote sanctuary was being built, sometime after A.D. 360, the curvilinear walls of the Eleusinian mystery hall were still standing.

  Academic text (2000)

• Later Eleusinian-Orphic initiations were concluded by a ritual of sudden light.

  Academic text (2000)

• The destruction of the Eleusinian sanctuary at the end of the fourth century occurred when Christianity was already legalized in Southeast Europe.

  Academic text (2000)

• What is needed is a sure source of initiation, a box, like the kiste of the Eleusinian mysteries, that will truly lead to the absolute.

  Academic text (1997)

• A curved wall was also discovered on the Eleusinian site, which Snodgrass suggests is evidence of the existence of an oval-planned temple.

  Academic text (2000)

• Frenzied voices trace oracles to Zoroaster, Eleusinian mystery to Orpheus.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Such perpetuated beliefs and practices demonstrate that Christianity has symbolic-ideological, as well as architectural ties with prehistoric cultural predecessors, of which the closest belongs to the Eleusinian mystery line.

  Academic text (2000)

• He could complain authoritatively about the loneliness of a stranger in Athens during the Eleusinian Mysteries, in ancient Baghdad during Ramadan, in Rome at Saturnalia, in China at New Year, in the Cave of the Old Ones at the Feast of the Great Bear....

  Fiction book (2000)

• The Eleusinian Mysteries were central to ancient Greek religious practices and involved secret rites.

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