eleusinian mysteries
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.73 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Initiations held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone, based at Eleusis in ancient Greece, now named Elefsina.
noun
Example Sentences
- "This, to be sure, was an error in interpretation, but it made it possible to associate with the Eleusinian mysteries also a notion familiar from other contexts, the notion of mystical rebirth as a child of the godhead."
- "Their origins are in the ancient Greek cult, in particular the most famous one, the Eleusinian mysteries."
- "Mystical and scholarly interest in the mystery religions, especially the Eleusinian mysteries of Ceres-Isis which were celebrated annually in August, was strong from the Renaissance on, its strength deriving in part from the emotional call of the feminine on the one hand and tantalising lack of evidence as to what actually went on at the celebration of the mysteries on the other."
Etymology
Calque of Ancient Greek Ἐλευσίνια Μυστήρια (Eleusínia Mustḗria).