Personal experience of the divine Flashcards
Eleusinion mysteries: who could attend
anyone - men, women, slaves, Greeks and non Greeks
Eleusinion mysteries: what did you have to do before joining
pay a contribution
Eleusinion mysteries: why were the imitated not allowed to speak about their initiation
because in order for the initiation to be scary for the initiates, they had to not know what was coming
Eleusinion mysteries: what was the punishment for speaking about the mysteries to those not initiated
death
Eleusinion mysteries: who spoke about the initiation to uninitiated people
Alcebides
Eleusinion mysteries: what happened on day 1
those already initiated and those wishing to be initiated assembled in the Athenian Agora
Eleusinion mysteries: what happened on day 2
the whole group including sacrificial animals marched to the seaside to bathe together as a purification ritual
Eleusinion mysteries: what happened on day 3,4&5
a three day period of rest
Eleusinion mysteries: what happened on day 6
- group reassembled and traveled t Eleusis
- libations and sacrifices were made and the young mocked the old in a ritual on the journey
- what happened next is unknown as it is a secret
- the initiation was a simulation of death meant to scare initiates into thinking they were dead then show them the good they will encounter after death
The healing cult of Asclepius: who was Asclepius
son of Apollo and mentioned in the Iliad as a student of Chiron
The healing cult of Asclepius: where was the main site
Epidaurus
The healing cult of Asclepius: incubation
- pre incubation bathing and sacrifice
- spend night in the abaton
- god may visit you or sacred snake in the night
The oracle at Dodona: Who was it for
Zeus
The oracle at Dodona: where was it located
Epirus (northern Greece)
The oracle at Dodona: How did responses come according to Homer and Hesiod
- rustling of leaves
- doves sitting in branches of tree
