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The great festival of which the mysteries were a part lasted for a total of eight days. Two extended Eleusinian families, the Eumolpidae and the Kerykes, were responsible for the celebrations. On the ...
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The great festival of which the mysteries were a part lasted for a total of eight days. Two extended Eleusinian families, the Eumolpidae and the Kerykes, were responsible for the celebrations. On the day before the festival started, the 14 Boedromion, at the end of September or beginning of October, a procession of priests and priestesses would leave Eleusis to bring the hiera, the sacred objects of Demeter, to Athens. After a series of preparatory purifying rites, the festival moved to Eleusis itself. This time there were two processions over an equal number of days, one was led by the priests and priestesses returning the hiera and the other was made up of the aspiring initiates. After a 22-kilometre walk they reached the sanctuary and danced for Demeter and Kore outside its walls, by the Kallichoron Well, after which they finally entered the sacred grounds.
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