Summary
Rodney Collin: Mysteries of Seeds
The Little and Great Eleusinian Mysteries, in the form that became known throughout the ancient world through Pisistratus, were founded, according to tradition, around the 13th century BC by Orpheus and his followers. According to other sources, they are even older, and were transmitted to the Pelagian women by the Danaids, initiates from Egypt; they were later destroyed by the Doric invaders and reformed by Orpheus.
The description of the myth of Demeter and Cora follows the Homeric hymn from the sixth century.
The following dialogues and scenes take place around 800 BC. The Achaean kingdoms disappeared. Athens ceased to be a kingdom and became an aristocratic republic. Eleusis made a treaty with the late king, or the early archons of Athens, and was merged with the Attic state.
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