#kykeon

[intothestacks]

How to make Kykeon, a healing potion mentioned in The Iliad and the Odyssey

[a-gnosis]

Hello, in your last page, Demeter said it was not appropriate for her to drink wine. Why ? Is about the fact she is a goddess, the social status she is impersonating (old woman, a foreigner, etc.) or she didn't like wine ?

I forgot to leave a comment about this on the comic page.

I think the most common interpretation is that Demeter rejects the wine because it is a mortal drink and chooses something that is closer to her domain. Of course, that passage is also meant to explain why this mixed drink, kykeon, became the drink of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

"Standing somewhere between the divine nourishment, nectar and ambrosia, which Demeter had rejected on her departure from Olympus, and the mortal wine forbidden to the gods, the barley drink belongs both to Demeter as the goddess of agriculture and to mankind as the recipient of her gift. In the drinking of this potion, mortality and immortality are momentarily joined" (The Politics of Olympus by Jenny Strauss Clay).

However, the gods occasionally drink wine and eat human food in my comics, so I imagine that Demeter simply didn't feel like drinking wine while she mourns her daughter.

[yee-art]

Kykeon! (drawn in FGO NA CBC 2022)

[hexandbalances]

Fall Reading List

The Darkening Age : The Christian Destruction of the Classical World by Catherine Nixey

A New York Times Notable Book - A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Named a Book of the Year by the Telegraph, the Spectator, the Observer, and BBC History Magazine.

In Harran, the locals refused to convert. They were dismembered, their limbs hung along the town's main street. In Alexandria, zealots pulled the elderly philosopher-mathematician Hypatia from her chariot and flayed her to death with shards of broken pottery. Not long before, their fellow Christians had invaded the city's greatest temple, smashing its world-famous statues and destroying all that was left of Alexandria's Great Library. Today we refer to Christianity's conquest of the West as a "triumph." But this victory entailed an orgy of destruction in which Jesus's followers attacked and suppressed classical culture, helping to pitch Western civilization into a thousand-year-long decline. In The Darkening Age, Catherine Nixey brilliantly resurrects this lost history, offering a wrenching account of the rise of Christianity and its terrible cost. "A feast of tales of murder, vandalism and] willful destruction . . . Nixey has a great story to tell, and she tells it exceptionally well." -- Guardian " A] bold, dazzling and provocative book." -- Peter Frankopan, best-selling author of The Silk Roads.

The Immortality Key : The Secret History of the Religion with No Name by Brian C. Muraresku

A groundbreaking, controversial dive into the role psychedelics have played in the human experience of the Divine and the development of religion throughout Western history. The Immortality Key connects the lost, psychedelic sacrament of Greek religion to early Christianity--exposing the true origins of Western Civilization. In the tradition of unsolved historical mysteries like David Grann's Killers of the Flower Moon and Douglas Preston's The Lost City of the Monkey God, Brian Muraresku's 10-year investigation takes the reader through Greece, Germany, Spain, France and Italy, offering unprecedented access to the hidden archives of the Louvre and the Vatican along the way. In The Immortality Key, Muraresku explores a little-known connection between the best-kept secret in Ancient Greece and Christianity. A secret with the capacity to revolutionize our understanding of the past and chart a bold, new course for the future. Before Jerusalem, before Rome, before Mecca--there was Eleusis: the spiritual capital of the ancient world. It promised immortality to Plato and the rest of Athens' greatest minds with a very simple formula: drink this potion, see God. Shrouded in secrecy for millennia, the Ancient Greek sacrament was buried when the newly Christianized Roman Empire obliterated Eleusis in the fourth century AD. Renegade scholars in the 1970s claimed the Greek potion was psychedelic, just like the original Christian Eucharist that replaced it. In recent years, vindication for the disgraced theory has been quietly mounting in the laboratory. The rapidly growing field of archaeological chemistry has proven the ancient use of visionary drugs. And with a single dose of psilocybin, the psycho-pharmacologists at Johns Hopkins and NYU are now turning self-proclaimed atheists into instant believers. With convincing analysis and a captivating spirit of quest, Muraresku mines science, classical literature, biblical scholarship and art to deliver the hidden key to eternal life, bringing us to what clinical psychologist William Richards calls "the edge of an awesomely vast frontier." Featuring a Foreword by Graham Hancock, the New York Times bestselling author of America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization.

Medusa : Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon by Stephen R. Wilk

Medusa, the Gorgon, who turns those who gaze upon her to stone, is one of the most popular and enduring figures of Greek mythology. Long after many other figures from Greek myth have been forgotten, she continues to live in popular culture. In this fascinating study of the legend of Medusa, Stephen R. Wilk begins by refamiliarizing readers with the story through ancient authors and classical artwork, then looks at the interpretations that have been given of the meaning of the myth through the years. A new and original interpretation of the myth is offered, based upon astronomical phenomena. The use of the gorgoneion, the Face of the Gorgon, on shields and on roofing tiles is examined in light of parallels from around the world, and a unique interpretation of the reality behind the gorgoneion is suggested. Finally, the history of the Gorgon since classical times is explored, culminating in the modern use of Medusa as a symbol of Female Rage and Female Creativity.

Wise Child by Monica Furlong

Children’s fiction. In a remote Scottish village, nine-year-old Wise Child is taken in by Juniper, a healer and sorceress. Then Wise Child’s mother, Maeve, a black witch, reappears. In choosing between Maeve and Juniper, Wise Child discovers the extent of her supernatural powers—and her true loyalties.

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So many new things in the works! 🌿 #poisonappleprintshop #sketchbook #eleusinianmysteries #demeter #graingoddess #kykeon https://www.instagram.com/p/CFKVwBXHUe7/?igshid=8ezwgf2w3iqi

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more unfinished stuff from urs truly

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[megasocky]

i havent drawn them  together/older cause doing 4+ is hard salami lid