Unveiled: The Mysterious Psychedelic Rituals of Ancient Greece’s Most Enigmatic Cult
These rituals began in ancient Greece around 1600 B.C.E. and took place twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall. They reenacted Demeter’s search for Persephone, by walking from Athens to Eleusis along an important road known as the Sacred Way.
The rituals themselves would then involve ceremonial bathing in the sea, animal sacrifices, and the consumption of an elixir called kykeon, which was made of barley and flavored with herbs. Kykeon, researchers now believe, was also treated with the ergot fungus, which caused participants to hallucinate.
Participants were said to emerge from the Eleusinian Mysteries with a newfound fearlessness about death which, given the very lethal properties of the ergot fungus they consumed, was perhaps well earned.
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