The Eleusinian Mysteries (Secret Ecstatic States)

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The Ancient Greek Mysteries of Eleusis explained by an academic and sourced from peer-reviewed literature.

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The Routledge Companion to Ecstatic Experience in the Ancient WorldThe Routledge Companion to Ecstatic Experience in the Ancient World https://amzn.to/412tpNb

The Homeric Hymn to DemeterThe Homeric Hymn to Demeter https://amzn.to/406dix9

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Clinch. (2022). Ecstasy and Initiation in the Eleusinian Mysteries. In Stein, Kielt Costello, & Polinger Foster (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Ecstatic Experiences in the Ancient World (pp. 314–331). Routledge.

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00:00 Introduction: Eleusinian Mysteries

01:12 The Cult of Demeter

02:17 Themes of life and death

04:02 Degrees of initiation

05:51 Asklepios and Hygeia

06:16 Clothing and purification

10:27 The 3 main elements

13:47 The Telesterion

15:34 The Kernoi

17:35 Religious ecstasy

18:45 The great light

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