that the “secret” of the Eleusinian Mysteries was the words whispered to the novice after he got the magic mushroom: “Osiris is a black God!”
Gee, my High Priestess told me it was a stalk of rye infected with ergot. Along w/the whole 'Dionysus is dead! Long live Dionysus!' thing. All the good gods died for our crops.
Don't eat ergot. Seriously. It can destroy your fertility, along with the rest of you.
The US Supreme Court is plotting to overturn Roe v. Wade as I'm reading this book.