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| literally translates to virgin birth. |
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| Merging of other beliefs and belief systems into one systematic belief like how the Romans adopted the Greek Gods. |
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| moderation and self-control; soundness of mind and the harmonia of the soul. |
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| why something is like in Greek stories how they try to explain things like fire and where it came from and why. |
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| model themselves after Homer |
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| supervisors of the mysteries |
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| older male lover of young boys in rite of passage |
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| terrifying and turns you away from it. |
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| fertility festival for fertile crops. |
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| WW2 code breaker he broke Linear B and showed it was Greek |
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| strife which is good and makes men work too much eris is a bad and causes men to fight |
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| symbolic barley drink could have been hallucinogenic |
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| advanced state of understanding |
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| WW2 code breaker he broke Linear B and showed it was Greek |
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| priests translation is literally revealers of sacred things. |
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| sponsors of the initiates |
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| “the one who is loved” aka the boy who is taken into this two month rite of passage with the erastes. |
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| masculine centered and influenced |
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| mischievious god of love eventually cupid. |
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| masculine centered and influenced |
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| movement from chaos to order. Birth of cosmos |
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| Goddess of memory; mother of the muses |
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| initiates to the Eleusinian mysteries |
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| Hermes role of taking souls to the underworld. |
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| getting ahead of line at the oracle. It was a huge deal. |
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| the rites Eleusinian mysteries |
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| cunning MacGyver like. Trickery coming from the feminine |
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| Goddess of memory; mother of the muses |
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| excessive pride, veering towards arrogance |
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| purification, a spiritual cleansing, often experienced by watching Greek tragedy |
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| why something is; like in Greek stories how they try to explain things like fire and where it came from and why. |
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| supervisor of the Eleusinian mysteries |
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| the mythological patriarch of the Hellenes; he was a man not a girl |
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