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ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES – SOURCE MATERIALS

      HERE ARE SOME GOOD SOURCE MATERIALS FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE INTERESTED

IN DEMETER, KORE, ELEUSIS AND THE MYSTERIES. THE FOUR FOLLOWING BOOKS HAVE BEEN HELPFULL TO ME. I HOPE YOU WILL FIND THAM USEFULL TO YOU!

      KERENYI, C. (TRANS. R. MANHEIM)  ELEUSIS: ARCHETYPAL IMAGE OF MOTHER
                  AND DAUGHTER;  SCHOCKEN BOOKS, NY., 1977
                  ISBN 0-8052-0548-9

      MYLONAS, GEORGE E.  ELEUSIS AND THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES,
                  PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, PRINCETON,NJ., 1961
                  ISBN 0-691-00205-3

      WASSON, R. GORDON; RUCK, CARL A.; HOFMANN, ALBERT;
                 THE ROAD TO ELEUSIS: UNVEILING THE SECRET OF THE MYSTERIES
                 HARCCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH, NY., 1978,
                 ISBN 0-15-625279-1

      MEYER, MARVIN W. (ED);  THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES A SOURCE BOOK;
                 SACRED TEXTS OF THE MYSTERY RELIGIONS OF THE ANCIENT
                 MEDITERRANEAN WORLD;
                 HARPER & ROW, NYC, 1987,
                 ISBN 0-06-065576-3

  QUICK NOTE:  THE INITIATORY FORMULA OF THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES
                    (MEYER, P. 18)

                      I HAVE FASTED;
                      I HAVE DRUNK THE KYKEON;
                      I HAVE TAKEN FROM THE CHEST (KISTE);
                         HAVING DONE THE WORK,
                      I HAVE PLACED IN THE BASKET (KALATHOS),
                         AND FROM THE BASKET INTO THE CHEST.

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