Contemplation and salvation in the Eleusinian mysteries
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| Format: | artículo original |
| Status: | Versión publicada |
| Publication Date: | 2013 |
| Description: | This paper describes the manner in which the Eleusinian mysteries propitiated soteria or salvationand epopteia or contemplation among their initiates. Mystery cults are cosmopolitan rather than local, andindividually rather than collectively oriented. The Eleusinian mysteries seemed to offer life-transformingpractices and rituals to their initiates. |
| Country: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Institution: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Language: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/6447 |
| Online Access: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/humanidades/article/view/6447 |
| Keyword: | eleusis mystery religions soteria epopteia hellenistic age Eleusis religiones mistéricas época helenística |