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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.
Elohim City [Note 1] (also known as Elohim City Inc. [2] and Elohim Village) is a private community in Adair County, Oklahoma, United States.The 400 acres (1.6 km 2) rural retreat was founded in 1973 by Robert G. Millar, a Canadian immigrant, former Mennonite, and "one of the most important leaders" in America's Christian Identity movement, a theology common to an assortment of right-wing ...
The location of Persephone's abduction is different in each local cult. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter mentions the "plain of Nysa". [93] The locations of this probably mythical place may simply be conventions to show that a magically distant chthonic land of myth was intended in the remote past.
Berry, Shelley, Small Towns, Ghost Memories of Oklahoma: A Photographic Narrative of Hamlets and Villages Throughout Oklahoma's Seventy-seven Counties (Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning Company Publishers, 2004). Blake Gumprecht, "A Saloon On Every Corner: Whiskey Towns of Oklahoma Territory, 1889-1907," The Chronicles of Oklahoma 74 (Summer 1996).
Eleusis: Telesterion, the site of the Eleusinian Mysteries, dedicated to Demeter and Persephone. Epidaurus: Temple of Asclepius, Epidaurus, dedicated to Asclepius. Isthmus of Corinth: Temple of Isthmia, dedicated to Poseidon. Olympia, Greece: cult center of Zeus. Oropos: Amphiareion of Oropos, dedicated to the hero Amphiaraos.
Location of the state of Oklahoma in the United States of America. This is a list of Oklahoma's state symbols, including official and unofficial. The official symbols are codified by statute. Many of the unofficial symbols are defined by Oklahoma Senate or House of Representative resolutions.
It is not a state endorsement of any religion, and it certainly does not threaten anyone's rights to worship as they choose, or not to worship at all." [26] On 30 January 2024, Oklahoma Sen. David Bullard filed a bill (SB 1858) to "prominently display and protect" a new version of the Ten Commandments Monument at the Oklahoma State Capitol.
Neighborhood in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States Greenwood, Tulsa Neighborhood Nickname: Black Wall Street Greenwood, Tulsa Location in Oklahoma Show map of Oklahoma Greenwood, Tulsa Greenwood, Tulsa (the United States) Show map of the United States Coordinates: 36°09′42″N 95°59′12″W / 36.16166°N 95.98660°W / 36.16166; -95.98660 Country United States State Oklahoma ...