The Sanctuary of Eleusis, near Athens, was the center of a religious cult that endured for nearly two thousand years and whose initiates came fr... read full description
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Dec 06, 2011
B.t.
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Right up there with Jung and Joseph Campbell is a man named Carl Kerenyi. An exile from his native Hungary, Kerenyi wrote extensively on Greek mythology and played an important role in its revival. Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter, fourth in a series of related books, is his attempt to reconstruct and interpret what really went on in the Eleusinian Mysteries.
Like Jung and Campbell, Kerenyi writes from the perspective of psychology and humanism. At the same time, he di More...
Like Jung and Campbell, Kerenyi writes from the perspective of psychology and humanism. At the same time, he di More...
Feb 13, 2011
Robert
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What was the secret philosophical doctrines behind the Eleusinian Mysteries? Although we cannot know for sure, Karl Kerenyi provides a very plausible possibility.
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