A man on a mission since The Road to Eleusis first debuted, Ruck has spent the past four decades obsessively trying to prove that the Greeks found God in a mind-altering cocktail brewed by witches. Yes, it was an elite school of priestesses who prepared and dispensed the potion at Eleusis. Would Demeter have it any other way? The Lady of the Grain who brought the chauvinistic Zeus and his kidnapping, sex-offending brother to their knees? The Mysteries were always the women’s domain. At first, as a matter of fact, women were the only ones who were eligible for initiation. This curious little
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