Eleusinian

[ el-yoo-sin-ee-uhn ]

/ ˌɛl yʊˈsɪn i ən /

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of or relating to Eleusis or to the Eleusinian mysteries.

a native or inhabitant of Eleusis.

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1635–45; <Latin Eleusini(us) <Greek Eleusínios of Eleusis + -an

The pig was the animal usually offered to Demeter, the goddess of the Eleusinian mysteries.
Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1|Andrew Lang
In the Eleusinian mysteries the rape of Persephone by Pluto, the winter god, is portrayed.
The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races|Sanger Brown, II
In memory of her sorrows Demeter establishes the Eleusinian mysteries (which, however, were purely agrarian in origin).
Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica|Homer and Hesiod
He has been blamed for thus exposing the Eleusinian mysteries of literature to the uninitiated.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)|Isaac D'Israeli

The Orphic, chiefly deserving mention as the probable foundation of the Eleusinian.
Mysticism and its Results|John Delafield