Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

"170 Eleusinian andthe new initiate in these sacred rites, in answer to the interrogations of the Hierophant :"I have fasted; I have drank the Cyceon;*I have taken out of the Cista, and placedwhat I have taken out into the Calathus;and alternately I have taken out of the Calathus and put into the Cista."KcfaTt TOEXsuoivuov {Jtoar^puov. Ev^atcoaa*tov ttuxstovcr sXa^ov en xiarqc, spyaoaqv.etc KaXaftov, %ac sx xaXafl-oo eiBut as this pertains to a circumstance attending the wanderings of Ceres,which formed the most mystic and emblematical part of the ceremonies, itis necessaryto adduce the following arcane narration,summarily collected from the writings ofArnobius : The goddess Ceres, when searching through the earth for her daughter, in thecourse of her wanderings arrived at theboundaries of Eleusis, in the Attic region, aplace which was then inhabited by a peoplecalled Autochthones, or descended from the*HOMER: Hymn to Ceres. "To her Metaneira gave a cup ofsweet wine, but she refused it ;but bade her to mix wheat andwater with pounded pennyroyal. Having made the mixture, shegave it to the goddess."