{"id":334,"date":"2015-06-04T06:39:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T06:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/?p=334"},"modified":"2015-06-04T06:39:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T06:39:30","slug":"eleusinian-mysteries-mother-daughter-rites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/eleusinian-mysteries-mother-daughter-rites\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleusinian Mysteries: Mother Daughter Rites compare to Father Son Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_335\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335\" style=\"width: 292px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demeter-and-persephone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demeter-and-persephone-292x300.jpg\" alt=\"Eleusinian Mystery Religion Greek Initiates Mother God Daughter God\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demeter-and-persephone-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demeter-and-persephone.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demeter &amp; Persephone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Eleusinian Mystery rites made up an awesome mystery school in ancient Greece. It has a whole &#8220;liturgy&#8221; based on a Mother-God and Daughter-God who were separated, descended into hell, had an annual resurrection (Easter).\u00a0\u00a0This early Greek &#8220;religion&#8221; has long been\u00a0compared\u00a0to the masculine Father-God and God-the-Son &#8220;myth cycle&#8221; of Christianity.\u00a0 One of our seminarians read that Cicero was an initiate and dug deeper into this &#8220;most famous of the secret religious rites of ancient Greece&#8221; (according to Encyclopedia Brittanica).<\/p>\n<p>I have always loved to study about them. One of the longest esoteric mysteries and teachings websites has a page on this topic which existed before Wikipedia existed. Here it is: http:\/\/www.crystalinks.com\/eleusinian.html<\/p>\n<p>Encyclopedia Brittanica online also has an interesting article: http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/EBchecked\/topic\/184459\/Eleusinian-Mysteries<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a nice bit of information: http:\/\/athang1504.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/eleusinian-mysteries.html<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eleusinian Mystery rites made up an awesome mystery school in ancient Greece. It has a whole &#8220;liturgy&#8221; based on a Mother-God and Daughter-God who were separated, descended into hell, had an annual resurrection (Easter).\u00a0\u00a0This early Greek &#8220;religion&#8221; has long been\u00a0compared\u00a0to the masculine Father-God and God-the-Son &#8220;myth cycle&#8221; of Christianity.\u00a0 One of our seminarians read &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/eleusinian-mysteries-mother-daughter-rites\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eleusinian Mysteries: Mother Daughter Rites compare to Father Son Christianity<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divinemother"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lOlB-5o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}