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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient city of eastern Greece near Athens, site of the Eleusinian mysteries.
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Institutions of learning are also infected with the glamour of secret organizations and the "Eleusis" of Chi Omega (Fayetteville, Ark.) of 1 June, 1900, states that there are twenty-four Greek letter societies with seven hundred and sixty-eight branches for male students, and eight similar societies with one hundred and twenty branches for female students, and a total membership of 142,456 in the higher institutions of learning in the
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When the first messengers from Thebes arrived in Attica, the Athenians were celebrating the mysteries of the goddess Demeter at the nearby town of Eleusis.
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David Gow writes that:The curse of Eleusis, the ancient Greek city now known as Elefsina and home to the temple of Demeter, is obviously still potent as Europe's banks are discovering to their cost.
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When the first messengers from Thebes arrived in Attica, the Athenians were celebrating the mysteries of the goddess Demeter at the nearby town of Eleusis.
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Nothing like standing in the Theatre of Dionysus in Athens or before the Gates of Hades at Eleusis to get in touch with setting.
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She was inspired by Aleister Crowley's attempt at doing ceremonial magick in a theatrical context in his 1910 Rites of Eleusis performances.
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When the first messengers from Thebes arrived in Attica, the Athenians were celebrating the mysteries of the goddess Demeter at the nearby town of Eleusis.
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Although Isis was at one time worshiped all over the Mediterranean world and the Rites of Demeter and Persephone at Eleusis drew pilgrims from everywhere, no pagan community or practice (to avoid the charged word "cult") has ever been hailed as a world religion.
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He had the woozy look of one imbibing ambrosia from Eleusis.
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King worshipped once with black sheep throats cut, priests's face averted from underground mysteries in single temple at Eleusis
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