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Eleusinian mysteries
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Eleusinian mysteries
pl.n.
The ancient religious rites celebrated at Eleusis in honor of Demeter.
[From Latin Eleusnius, of Eleusis, from Greek Eleusnios, from Eleuss, Eleusn-, Eleusis.]
Eleusinian mysteries
pl n
(Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) a mystical religious festival, held in September at Eleusis in classical times, in which initiates celebrated Persephone, Demeter, and Dionysus
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In a sense, she makes the reader an initiate in the Eleusinian Mysteries and permits the reader to experience the crucial phases of the Mysteries from an imitatio Cereris to the "visio beatifica of the epopteia, the epiphany of Kore" (147).
Rewriting Hesiod, revisioning Korea: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee ... by Lee, Kun Jong / College Literature
 
 
 
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