Vocab Flashcards
Genesia
Festival to stave off vengeful spirits that felt neglected.
Anthesteria
Athenian festival to Dionysus to celebrate Spring
Pithoigia
First day of the Anthesteria. Offer libations of last year’s wine
Choes
Second day of the Anthesteria. Partying. The ritual queen of Athens does a ritual symbolizing a marriage to Dionysus, may include sex. 14 Athenian matrons are witnesses
Chytroi
Third day of the Anthesteria. More partying. Fruits are offered to Hermes Cthonois
Katabasis
Descending into Hades
Necromancy
Performing rituals to contact the dead and receive guidance.
Ajax
Ajax the greater. Greek Hero in the Trojan War. Rescues the body of Achilles. Dies when Oddyseus is given Achilles armor instead of him.
Oidipous at Kolonos
Middle of the Oedipus trilogy. Oedipus dies on sacred ground in Athens as stated in the prophecy, blessing it.
oikist as hero
Cults to the founders of cities
Heterogeneity
Something Heterogenous is distinctly nonuniform
Bomos
An elevated place for sacrifice
Consumption (Ritual)
Eating a piece of the sacrificed animal
Destruction (Ritual)
Burning the bones/fat of the animal so that the god can join you in the feast
Pythagorean Pure
The strictest Pythagoreans. Strictly vegetarians. Wouldn’t associate with ANYONE involved in meat.
Mageiros
Cook/Butcher. Never handles wild animals because you don’t eat/sacrifice wild animals. You hunt dangerous animals because they are dangerous, you eat domestic animals because that is their job.
Hupotkuptein
When the sacrificial animal nods it’s consent to being a sacrifice.
Sphageus
Slayer-denouncer. Someone that protests a sacrifice
Sacralization
Making something sacred
Cult of Asclepius
God of the healing part of medicine. Primary sanctuary in Epidaurus.
Healing Sanctuary
A sanctuary you can receive divine healing, most famous is the sanctuary of Asclepius in Epidaurus
Pergamon
Powerful Ionian Polis
Muesis
Closing of the eyes. When you stop taking in outward data and start learning the inner truths. Associated with the second initiation of Bacchic Mysteries
Epopteia
1 year after initiation into the Eleusian mysteries you can return and enter the next level, Epopteia. You are shown the divine objects
Cabiri
Group of mysterious cthonic gods worshiped at Samothrace. Have their own mystery cult
Superstition
The most extreme form of belief. Believing the gods wish you harm so normal ritual becomes somber instead of the happy occasion it should be
Orphics
Initiates in the Orphic Mysteries
Orphic Gold Leaves
Series of inscribed gold leaves detailing the Orphic Mysteries found in tombs
