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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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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