Tag: ancient greece
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Adam & Lilith: Thanatos and Resurrection of the Archetypal Goddess
The idea of the ancient goddess is a theological concept that has given rise to the nature-religious movement in the latter 20th century.
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Five Best: Religious Cults In Antiquity
from wsj.com: Written by Mary Beard: The Greeks and the Irrational. By E.R. Dodds (1951) For me, this was a life-changing book. It starts with an encounter in the British Museum in front of the sculptures from the Parthenon. E.R. Dodds bumps into a young man who is unimpressed—he can’t bear the ancient Greeks, he…
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The Eleusinian Mysteries of Ancient Greece
from blog.prehistoricshamanism.com: For nine days, from the 15th to the 23rd of the month of Boedromion (which probably corresponded to September), the Eleusinian Mysteries of ancient Greece took place. These were initiation ceremonies into the cult of Demeter and her daughter, Persephone, occurring in Eleusis in West Attica, about 18 km northwest from the centre…