CLASS 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Metanira, Hecate, Pomegranate
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New paradigm of looking at the gods. Body laid out in house for 3 days. Fasting; don"t eat while mourning for 3 days. Loosen hair & don"t take care of yourself. Do things at liminal times during dawn or dusk. Charon ferryman that takes you across river styx with a small fee. Sisyphus has to always push up a boulder in the afterlife over & over again. Orpheus makes a deal with hades to get his wife euridyce back. Hades tells orpheus that he can lead her up but he can"t look back. He looks back & his wife goes back to underworld. Mystery cults are about empathy & feeling & believing. About overcoming death in a different way. Demeter is awe-inspiring for humans b/c eating is what keeps you alive. Eleusis one of the greatest sanctuaries. Hero that"s a boy sitting on magical wheelchair receiving grain stocks from. Demeter/persephone & takes them all over the world.
