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  2. Eleusinian Mysteries - Wikipedia

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    A votive plaque known as the Ninnion Tablet depicting elements of the Eleusinian Mysteries, discovered in the sanctuary at Eleusis (mid-4th century BC). The Eleusinian Mysteries (Greek: Ἐλευσίνια Μυστήρια, romanized: Eleusínia Mystḗria) were initiations held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based at the Panhellenic Sanctuary of Eleusis in ancient Greece.

  3. Persephone - Wikipedia

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    The city of Locri Epizephyrii, in modern Calabria (southern Italy), was famous for its cult of Persephone, where she is a goddess of marriage and childbirth in this region. Her name has numerous historical variants. These include Persephassa (Περσεφάσσα) and Persephatta (Περσεφάττα). In Latin, her name is rendered Proserpina.

  4. Talk:Persephone - Wikipedia

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    This cult of resurrected gods was mixed in certain areas with an existing agrarian-vegetation cult. [2] In the original Near-Eastern myth every year the fertility goddess bore the god of the new year who became her lover and immediately died in order to arise new again in the next year and face the same destiny.In Minoan Crete the hieros gamos ...

  5. Ohio City, Ohio - Wikipedia

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    The town council met on June 1, 1890, and a man by the name of Lewis J. Kiggins brought up the subject, and asked the rest of the men if they liked Ohio City. The vote was taken and Ohio City became the new name. In 1910, Ohio City was a very prosperous town.

  6. Detroit–Shoreway - Wikipedia

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    Detroit–Shoreway is serviced by various bus routes, and includes its own rapid transit station, West 65th–Lorain.The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, in conjunction with the City of Cleveland and the Cleveland EcoVillage, is working on plans for transit-oriented development in the area around the station, and Detroit–Shoreway is additionally the site of a brownfield ...

  7. Bellaire–Puritas, Cleveland - Wikipedia

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    Houses were built first in the neighborhood's eastern section, with development moving west. [12] Single-family homes are generally small, under 1,500 square feet (140 m 2 ). [ 13 ] Much of this housing stock is deteriorating, [ 3 ] even though residents of Bellaire–Puritas have a median household income of $32,900 (20 percent higher than ...

  8. Cuyahoga Valley, Cleveland - Wikipedia

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    Cuyahoga Valley is a neighborhood on the Central and South Side of Cleveland, Ohio, located along the Cuyahoga River.Formerly known as Industrial Valley, the neighborhood was originally limited to only one section of the geographic Cuyahoga River Valley, but the city expanded it in 2012 to include the entire valley area. [3]

  9. Eleusinion - Wikipedia

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    They had a letter from an Imperial official inscribed on a stele on the outer west side of the sanctuary. [86] [87] The section of the Panatheniac Way running along the west side of the sanctuary was lowered and paved in two stages in the first and second centuries AD. A branch from the aqueduct of Hadrian was built behind the sanctuary in the ...