Telesterion

The Telesterion was a exceptional hall and sanctuary in Eleusis, one of the primary facilities of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Devoted to Demeter and Persephone, those initiation ceremonies were the maximum sacred and historic of all of the non secular rites celebrated in Greece. He Athenians used several calendars, every for distinct purposes. The competition of Eleusinia was celebrated every year in Eleusis and Athens for nine days from the 15th to the 23rd of the month of Boedromion in September or October of the Gregorian calendar; because the festival calendar had 12 lunar months, the celebrations had been no longer strictly calibrated to a year of one year.

During the festival, Athens changed into crowded with visitors. As the climax of the ceremonies at Eleusis, the initiates entered the Telesterion where they had been proven the sacred relics of Demeter and the priestesses discovered their visions of the holy night time in all likelihood a hearth that represented the possibility of lifestyles after death. This turned into the most secretive a part of the Mysteries and people who were initiated had been forbidden to ever speak of the events that passed off within the Telesterion. You can come here and explore this place.