Personal Experience Of The Divine

Question 1

Who were the gods involved in thr Eleusinian mysteries?

Answer 1

Demeter, Kore (Persephone), Pluton (Hades)

Question 2

What does Hierophant mean?

Answer 2

Only ones who could go near the sacred objects

Question 3

What does Eumolpia mean?

Answer 3

The priestly clan of Eleusis

Question 4

What does Anaktoron mean?

Answer 4

Palace/Kings palace; a rectangular stone structure in the centre of the telesterion that housed the sacred objects

Question 5

What does Hiera mean?

Answer 5

The unknown sacred objects

Question 6

What does Mystae/mysts mean?

Answer 6

Initiates of the Eleusinian mysteries

Question 7

What does Mystagogue mean?

Answer 7

Someone who was already initiated into the Eleusinian mysteries

Question 8

What does Archon Basileus mean?

Answer 8

King of religion in Athens

Question 9

What does Epoteia mean?

Answer 9

The revelation of the secret at the end of the Elusinian mysteries

Question 10

What does Ceryce mean?

Answer 10

The heralds from Eleusis

Question 11

What does Hera Hodos mean?

Answer 11

The sacred way

Question 12

What does dodauchas mean?

Answer 12

The torch bearer in the Eleusinian mysteries

Question 13

What was the telesterion?

Answer 13

The great hall of initiation at the Eleusinian sanctuary

Question 14

Who could be initiated into the Eleusinian mysteries?

Answer 14

Anyone could be initiated, so long as they hadn’t committed a crime

Question 15

How long did the initiated status last?

Answer 15

For life

Question 16

How long did the sacred truce last to allow for mysts to travel for the mysteries?

Answer 16

55 days

Question 17

What happened on day 1 of the mysteries?

Answer 17

30,000 mysts and mystagogues travel to Athens to be instructed my thr Archōn Basileus

Question 18

What happens on day 2 of initiation into the mysteries?

Answer 18

Procession to South Coast for purifying bathe with sacrificial animals (pigs)

Question 19

How many days of rest follow day 2 of the initiation into the mysteries?

Answer 19

3 days of rest

Question 20

What happens on day 6 of initiation into the mysteries?

Answer 20

Varefoot procession to Eleusis along the Hiera Hodos while wearing myrtle wreaths

Question 21

What happens on day 7/8 of initiation into the mysteries?

Answer 21

The initiation takes place where kykeon is drunk by the initiates

Question 22

What is kykeon?

Answer 22

A special brew made from barley and pennyroyal, said to have psychotropic effects

Question 23

What did the mysts see in the Epopteia?

Answer 23

The return of Kore to Demeter and a ghostly form of Kore carrying her child

Question 24

What are the two main sanctuaries for the healing culture of Asclepius?

Answer 24

Epidarus and Kos

Question 25

What is the difference between Epidarus and Kos?

Answer 25

Epidarus was a lanhellenic site, whereas Kos was a medical school

Question 26

What did a typical visit to one of the sanctuary sites of the healing culture of Asclepius include?

Answer 26

Predatory bathing, sacrifices, and incubation

Question 27

What is incubation?

Answer 27

Sleeping for medical healing

Question 28

How were people cured at one of the sanctuary sits of the healing culture of Asclepius?

Answer 28

In their sleep, through surgery, through medicine, through diet and exercise

Question 29

What is the oldest oracle in ancient Greece?

Answer 29

The oracle at Dodona

Question 30

Who was originally worshipped at the oracle at Dodona, and who was this replaced by?

Answer 30

Originally, Gaia was worshipped at the site first, then Zeus was introduced and replaced this

Question 31

How did people receive responses from the Oracle at Dodona?

Answer 31

They came from the rustling of leaves on the sacred oak or from the doves in the tree

Question 32

What we’re the main concerns that people consulted the oracle at Dodona about?

Answer 32

Which God they should pray to, their careers, their family, and if travel was wise