Greek Mystery Traditions
Overview
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Key Passages
Passage 1
ar offers: “If anyone wishes to learn the truth from mc, let him put what he wants in a prayer at the altar and he will obtain it by means of a vision during the night or the day.” Ammias’s priesthood may have given her an ex- ceptional heroic status in death, upon which her powers may have been consequent. Her cult, if not one of Artemis, who was known to have had mysteries at Thyateira, may have been one of Asclcpius, in which case her prophecies will have been healing ones.” Athanatos Epitynchanos, a prophet from Akmonia in Phrygia, died in the early fourth century A.n. His epitaph advertises his eagerness to continue prophesying after death in the following terms: “This gift I have from the immortal … Athanatos Epitynchanos, the one that chatters out everything.” In another Phrygian epitaph, a son appears to describe the parents…
Passage 2
OY EEA IBEA EAE EL^ L ~ I E I- IOY I ~ E IOY IE IE IE IEIE; l’aian,"" Phoibos of Kolophon, Phoibos of Parnassos, Phoibos of Kastdia; IEEA IE 16 IY / IE IOA I h EYA AEA E Y h OEYA EYGA EYIE EYIAE EYE EYE EYIE EYO IEYAE EYBAE, I will hymn Phoibos Mentor … AREOTH I A E C ~ H IOA IOEA AE OOE AEO OEA E6A AEE 1E I 0 I6 I6 IEA & IEOY EOYi) M A 6 0 EE EEY EE E%A CHABIWCH PHLIESKER PHIKRO PHINYRO PHOCHOB
CH? I summon you, ApoUo of Klaros, / EEY; Kastalian One, a; Pythian, OAE; Apollo of the Muses, 106~1.” Preparationfor the rite: On the first day, [collect] nails of a sheep; on the scc- ond, the nails of a goat; on the third, the hair or knucklebonc of a wolf. Use these as…
Passage 3
ic hymn;50 certainly the likely development of the (of which the were part) into the primitive suggests early dramatic activity which incorporated strife and, in keeping with the occasion, obscenity.51 The recent demonstration by Herter52 that Attica, as well as the Peloponnese, at an early date possessed indigenous ithyphallic-steatopygic “actors” in addition to the masked chorus makes such a supposition all the more attractive. We must return to these points presently. Although the Eleusinian mysteries included no obscenity or ritual a- buse53—perhaps because they were so solemn—the faithful were subjected to scurrilous abuse on their way to the holy place, in a strange custom known as the It is not clear whether this practice had any religious connection; as Deubner remarked (Attische Feste [Berlin, 1932], p. 73), “Dergleichen Neckereien konnten sich bei enger Passage leicht genug einstellen.” The probably organized as a thiasos (cf. Plu. Sulla 2), stood on a…
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Sources
- The_Greek_Magical_Papyri_in_Translation.pdf
- Greek_and_Roman_Necromancy_Daniel_Ogden_.pdf
- Hermetica_The_Greek_Corpus_Hermeticum_and_the_Lati