Eleusinian Festival

GPTKB entity

Properties (46)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:Hindu_temple
gptkbp:associatedWith Persephone
life after death
spiritual enlightenment
Demeter
agricultural fertility
mystery cults
gptkbp:celebrates gptkb:ancient_Greeks
4th century AD
gptkbp:culturalImpact influenced later festivals
influenced_Western_esotericism
influenced_Christian_traditions
gptkbp:duration nine days
gptkbp:heldIn gptkb:Eleusis
gptkbp:historicalPeriod gptkb:Diodorus_Siculus
gptkb:Classical_Greece
gptkb:Herodotus
Hellenistic period
Plato
Pausanias
Roman period
Apuleius
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Eleusinian Festival
gptkbp:includes sacrifices
initiation rites
sacred processions
gptkbp:influencedBy mystery religions
gptkbp:location Eleusis,_Greece
gptkbp:mythology Persephone
Hades
Demeter
Triptolemus
myth_of_Demeter_and_Persephone
gptkbp:participants priests
worshippers
initiates
gptkbp:relatedTo seasonal changes
Agricultural cycle
gptkbp:sacraments fasting
sacred objects
purification
gptkbp:significance agriculture
fertility
gptkbp:UNESCO_World_Heritage_Site mysteries
sacred grain
kiste