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Conversations: Can You Smell the God In the Air?! Epiphanies in Antiquity w/ Gillian Glass

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

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The Epiphany of Dameter

There is a ritual preparation for it. And then we wind up in the ideas around limenality and transformation. It's unclear to us exactly what was going on at Eleusis, but we know that they marched from eleusis. There were a couple of moments where they bathed. Here's torchlit, walking at night. They get to eleusis, we think there was probably some kind of ritual retelling of the persephone dameter story. As the worshipper stands seeing demeter, epiphinan adeleusis which connects them throughout all these things. So it's very powerful,. ill say, moment, cause it's no even about literature

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