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The Cult Dossier · No. 003 · Ancient Mystery Cult
Eleusinian Mysteries
Mysteries of Demeter and Kore
c.1600 BCE – 392 CE · Eleusis, Attica (Greece)
I. ANTIQUITY — THE MYSTERY CULTS
Fully religious — the most prestigious initiatory cult of the ancient world
### Who led it
### What it worshipped and taught
### Who was in it
### How it ended, or where it stands
### The dead
### Of note
### Its timeline
- c.1600–1100 BCE Mycenaean cult site established at Eleusis.
- c.600 BCE Absorbed into the Athenian state calendar; the Sacred Way built from Athens.
- 415 BCE Alcibiades charged with profaning the Mysteries in a private house — a capital scandal in Athens.
- c.170 CE Sanctuary sacked by the Sarmatians; rebuilt by Marcus Aurelius, himself an initiate.
- 392 CE Theodosius I outlaws the Mysteries.
- 396 CE Alaric and the Visigoths, accompanied by Arian monks, destroy the sanctuary.
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