Keywords
mystery religions
soteria
epopteia
hellenistic age
Eleusis
religiones mistéricas
soteria
epopteia
época helenística
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Abstract
This paper describes the manner in which the Eleusinian mysteries propitiated soteria or salvationand epopteia or contemplation among their initiates. Mystery cults are cosmopolitan rather than local, andindividually rather than collectively oriented. The Eleusinian mysteries seemed to offer life-transformingpractices and rituals to their initiates.References
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