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(time index set to the Delphi segment)Mysteries of the Ancient World - Myths and Legends (at 43:15)
March 13, 2016 | Questar Entertainment
Posted on 10/07/2023 4:11:53 PM PDT by Beowulf9
Archaeologists are good at recovering things left behind by the past, such as buildings, incense altars, tools and relief carvings. What they are not so good at recovering are the ideas, feelings and emotions—the innerness—of sentient ancient beings. It’s one thing to examine a temple’s holy of holies; it’s another thing to understand what went on there and what people experienced. Sometimes, however, there’s an exception to the rule.
(Excerpt) Read more at biblicalarchaeology.org ...
Like wow, maaaan!
Thanks!
(time index set to the Delphi segment)Mysteries of the Ancient World - Myths and Legends (at 43:15)
March 13, 2016 | Questar Entertainment
bkmk
oh wow. Did not expect that!
See, did not expect it — that’s why we still *need* an oracle of Delphi. ;^)
Thanks for the link, good FRiend!
Not only were the Oracles of Delphi kept drugged, they were also molested. Really the whole oracle business (at Delphi and other places) is pretty screwed up. Dirty old conmen using young girls to scam money from politicians, which of course the politicians get from the people. And in between visits from politicians using the young girls in other ways.
My pleasure!
I’m glad I found that link, I thought that documentary had been removed from online. I picked it up on DVD, uh, a long while back, it’s mostly excellent, although the segments seem too short.
I just realized I omitted this topic from the weekly GGG digest I sent an hour or so ago. I’ll note that next week.
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"The Eleusinian Mysteries were initiations held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based at the Panhellenic Sanctuary of Eleusis in ancient Greece.0 They were celebrated annually for at least a thousand years until 329 CE. The festival started in early September in Eleusis, a town 14 miles from Athens, and was known as the most mysterious of the ancient Greek world.2 According to the myth told in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, the earth goddess Demeter went to Eleusis in search of her daughter Kore (Persephone), who had been abducted by Hades (Pluto). The Eleusinian Mysteries are considered the most famous of the secret religious rites of ancient Greece."
And a Link to that Venerable publication, Vice magazine!
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epgebm/ergot-fungus-psychedelic-lsd-witchcraft
"Ergotism was likely discovered when humans began cultivating grain, about 10,000 years ago. Roman scholar Pliny is the first to mention ergot-infested grain much later, in the first century AD, but not until after historians and chemists described the Greeks using the fungus as a chemical weapon and a psychoactive drug during the celebrations of the Eleusinian Mysteries."
An episode of, hmm, Ripley's maybe? attributed the Salem Witch Trials to ergot in the grain supply. It was actually just a sociopathic teen bitch that made the accusations, and then recanted them 20 or so years later, but not before a bunch of superstitious and/or hateful a-holes murdered a bunch of their neighbors.
Salem witch trials;
No, not ergot. The girls were daughters of a Preacher in the town. They had a West Indian Slave woman who did divination. That may have been the doorway into what they did.
The adults at the trial should have treated them as demon possessed rather than accepting their spectal witness.
One little **** accused his own grandmother. When her back was turned, he’d throw something into the air inside their cabin, and scream, claiming she was making it fly around.
His caper was foiled when the investigating constable emerged from a large cabinet, having surreptitiously witnessed the scam, and trimmed the little bastard.
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