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| obscene language, used in festivals when it gave a person an excuse to talk like they normally wouldnt used in the second day of the anthesteria festival in athens. often associated with a division ofthe sexes and the battle between them |
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| a large storage jar, associated with the first day of the anthesteria, a jug or container so big that one could actually sit in it. |
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| wine jug, second day of the anthesteria, everyone has a wine jug and competes to finish it first. silent drinking at separate tables. there were also shouting and using obscene language (aiskhrologia). khe- means to pour out |
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| funerary type dish of all grains (panspermia) in honey, has associations with the flood and swinging..?3rd day of the anthesteria |
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| "all grains" put into the khutroi which is a funerary type dish on day three of the anthesteria festival in athens |
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| the roman calender. the fasti were the lawcourt days. time within roman society was divided within working days, festivals, and half festival days. |
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| the spirits of the dead but when they come above ground again. celebrated within the lemuria festivals |
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| an initiate to mystery cult. they participate within the musterion, which is the place or ritual of the mystai. emphasis on the mustes is being something seen.. a death like experience or suffering, fertility connection, sexual themes promise of advantage or prosperity or security in this life or the next. |
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| the place where the mystery takes place or ritual of the mystai itself |
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| barley and mint drink used in the elesian mysterys. connection with the synthema (password)(i drank from the kykeon) |
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| a box used in the mysterys. connection with the synthema (password)i took from the kiste, worked place it in the basket and out and put it in the kiste. |
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| the password, (i fasted i drank the kykeon, i took from the kiste, worked , placed it in the basket, and out of the basket into the kiste. |
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| meas to put together. riddle, or token. a way for riddle from the dead to the living. melissa and periander myth |
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| "one who shows the hiera" always chosen from eumolpidai. used in the elyusian mystery's. participates in the things shown part of the mysteries he appears with the kiste, all |
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| the place of the initiation to the mysterys. distinction of use of space. could be the place where demeter and kore appear within the elesian mysterys. skylights and doors were important to block out all light and suddenly have the room filled with light.. no windows. |
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| a place within the telesterion where only the hierophant could enter where the sacred objects were stored (ear of corn?) |
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| person who looked upon the sacrificial animal to make sure that the animal is correct. like the haruspex of rome who used liver model from the etruscans to see what may be wrong and why. accept if normal or not. |
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| to take the signs of the birds.. marked out the templum in the heavens as a rectangle defined by the taker of the auspices. |
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| acts as an adviser to the magistrate who is taking to the aupicius |
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| roman diviner who inspected the entrails of sacrifical victums to see if they were normal or not. gained knowledge from the estruscans who had a logner history of it. |
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| to show forth. the examination of portents by the college of pontiffs, collection of prodigium by collegium of pontiffs who make recommendations, however senate gives orders |
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| to bring forth,but deals with portents and specifically the bad portents. its where we get our word monster but it meant a bad sign to the ancients. |
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| god speaks through medium i state of enthousiasmos. (having god inside). talking about how gods speak through the pythia of delphi and other oracular models like her. |
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| (oracle of the dead at ephyra. connection to the underworld. meet with oracle on rivers acheron and kokytos. described in the story of periander and melissa. |
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| grk, drug, binding spell on a curse tablet, from the word that means to bind down. spells become an artform, the more complicated the better. |
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| lat. meaning binding spell, on a curse tablet, from the word that means fasten or fix down. spells become an artform, the more complicated the better. |
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| the spirits of a deceased person who died an untimely death. prayed to within magic cult thought to have special importance. |
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| girls carry mysterious item that the priestess gave them, they descend and leave what they brought and take something else out veiled. |
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| "ox murder" for zues polieus, man killed an ox lived in exile in crete but when rain stopped falling they went to priestess of apollo and found that there had to be a trial for th murder. so they recreated it with everyone involved then stuffed the ox an decided the knife was to be blamed and threw it in the water. |
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| 11-13th of anthesterion, anthos means flower. celebrated at the sanctuary of dionysos (in the marshes). starts with the arrival of dionysis by ship through the city. 1st day pithoigia (opening of the pithoi) 2ns day khoes, 3nd day khutroi (pots) |
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| in athens celebrated in the middle of the month of pyanopsion, means something placed, but refers to objects/material carried at the thesmophoria. the women create a separate world aside from the men with huts. they picked two leaders the arkhousai. they had assembles and did normal things just without men. the first day was the anodos (the way up) and was the day for walking up to the sanctuary, piglet sacrifices in pits for demeter and kore, in relation with the myth of the abduction of kore, 2nd day nesteia (fast) creation of primitive pre civilization state, beds on ground, associated with grieving and mourning. day 3, kalligeneia (good birth) sacrifice and feasting, women use sacrificial instruments and knives. |
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| 15th of feb. on noncourt days. goats killed, then two young noblemen sons stain their foreheads with the bloody knife others wipe it off with wool dipped in milk.cut the skin into thongs they run around naked lashing all they meet. women think that being hit with the lash is good for fertility.... connection with the wolf |
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| may 9, 11, 13, festivals of the lemures, or spirits of the dead... wake in the dead of night.. purifys his hands.. takes some black beans says while throing i redeem me and mine 9 times without looking back while the shade is thought to be gathering the beans again touches water and asks the spirit to depart his house. and now he can look back. |
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| october horse. a sacrifice to mars every year in the campus martis in the month of october. the right hand horse of the victors chariot.. the horse is divided and separated to different areas |
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