The color purple is also associated with Claviceps Purpuria
a fungus that grows on grain and has LSD alkoloids.
It is theorized that a decoction of it was used
in the Eleusinian Mysteries.
“For where ever has there been a greater disparity
between seeing and hearing...” Aristides the Rhetor.
The offering was called the kykeon and those who
partook of it were called Epoptes as they had
experienced the whole of the rite.
For over two thousand years...
Eleusis and the cult of Demeter, very interesting.