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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. Despoina - Wikipedia

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    There is a museum at the archaeological site called the Archaeological museum of Lykosoura, housing small finds as well as part of the cult group, while the remains of the cult statues of Despoina and Demeter are displayed at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. The most significant artifact among its collection is the veil of Despoina ...

  4. Greco-Roman mysteries - Wikipedia

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    Mystery religions, mystery cults, sacred mysteries or simply mysteries (Greek: μυστήρια), were religious schools of the Greco-Roman world for which participation was reserved to initiates (mystai). The main characteristic of these religious schools was the secrecy associated with the particulars of the initiation and the ritual practice ...

  5. Arcadian Cults of the Mistresses - Wikipedia

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    One particularly distinctive epithet she bore was Demeter Melaina (Ancient Greek: Δημητηρ Μελαινα), meaning “Black Demeter” and referring to an Arcadian version of her mythology. The ancient Greek travel writer Pausanias records a myth where, whilst searching for her lost daughter Kore, Demeter was pursued by the god Poseidon .

  6. Demeter - Wikipedia

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    The cult originated in southern Italy (part of Magna Graecia) and was probably based on the Thesmophoria, a mystery cult dedicated to Demeter and Persephone as "Mother and Maiden". It arrived along with its Greek priestesses, who were granted Roman citizenship so that they could pray to the gods "with a foreign and external knowledge, but with ...

  7. Iacchus - Wikipedia

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    By the 1st-century BC, Demeter suckling Iacchus had become such a commonplace, that the Latin poet Lucretius could use it as an apparently recognizable example of a lover's euphemism. [61] A scholiast on the 2nd-century AD Aristides, explicitly names Demeter as Iacchus' mother. [62] By other accounts apparently, Iacchus was the husband of ...

  8. List of Discovery Channel original programming - Wikipedia

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    Resurrection Tomb Mystery (2012) Rex Hunt's Fishing Adventure (1991–2004) Rides; Rise of the Video Game (2007) Rivals; River of No Return (2019) Road Trip USA; Robotica; Rob Riggle: Global Investigator (2020) Rocket Around the Xmas Tree (2020) [3] Rocket Science; Royal Deaths & Diseases (2003–04) RTL Autowereld

  9. Triptolemus - Wikipedia

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    Triptolemus' first introduction to Demeter is during Demeter's search for her daughter following the abduction of Persephone.While Demeter, in the guise of an old woman [8] named Doso, [9] was searching for her daughter Persephone (Kore), who had been abducted by Hades (Pluto), [10] she received a hospitable welcome from Celeus, the King of Eleusis.

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