The cults of Persephone and Demeter in the Eleusinian mysteries and in the Thesmophoria were based on very old agrarian cults.

The cult was based on ancient, ethnically Greek cults to Demeter, most notably the Thesmophoria to Demeter and Persephone, whose cults and myths also provided a basis for the Eleusinian mysteries.

" In this situation she can be called Demeter Thesmophoros, for the Athenian women imitated her when they sat on the ground and fasted at the Thesmophoria ".

The chief source is a scholiast on Lucian ( Dialogue Meretricii 2. 1 ), explaining the term " Thesmophoria ".

Pits rich in organic matter at Eleusis have been taken as evidence that the Thesmophoria was held there as well as in other demes of Attica.

The mythographer Apollodorus says that Iambe's jesting was the reason for the practice of ritual jesting at the Thesmophoria, a festival celebrated in honor of Demeter and Persephone, but in other versions of the myth of Demeter, the goddess is received by a woman named Baubo, who makes her laugh by exposing herself, in a ritual gesture called anasyrma (" lifting skirts ").

In Thesmophoria however the Chorus never speaks out of character, the first parabasis is shortened and there is no second parabasis.

The Thesmophoria were the most widespread festivals and the main expression of the cult of Demeter, aside from the Eleusinian Mysteries.

The Thesmophoria commemorated the third of the year when Demeter abstained from her role of goddess of the harvest and growth ; spending the harsh summer months of Greece, when vegetation dies and lacks rain, in mourning for her daughter who was in the realm of the Underworld.

The games were either opened or accompanied by more or less elaborate processions and sacrifices, while processions from the earliest times formed part of the worship of the old nature gods, as those connected with the cult of Dionysus and the Phallic processions, and later formed an essential part of the celebration of the great religious festivals ( e. g. the processions of the Thesmophoria, and that of the Great Dionysia ), and of the mysteries ( e. g. the great procession from Athens to Eleusis, in connection with the Eleusinia ).

Her Thesmophoria festival ( October 11 – 13 ) was women-only.

* The thesmophoroi, " the legislators " in the Thesmophoria.

His swine were swallowed by the earth along with her, and the myth is an etiology for the relation of pigs with the ancient rites in Thesmophoria, and in Eleusis.

Cult of Demeter and the Maiden is found at Attica, in the main festivals Thesmophoria and Eleusinian mysteries and in a lot of local cults.

Thesmophoria, were celebrated in Athens, and the festival was widely spread in Greece.

** Piraeus: The Skirophoria, a festival related with the Thesmophoria.

** A fest in Boeotia, in the month Demetrios ( Pyanepsion ), probably similar with the Thesmophoria.

** Thebes: Cult of Demeter and Kore in a fest named Thesmophoria but probably different.

** Priene: Cult of Demeter and Kore, similar with the Thesmophoria.

* Aristophanes ' plays Lysistrata and Women Celebrating the Thesmophoria are performed.

Thesmophoria was a festival held in Greek cities, in honor of the goddesses Demeter and her daughter Persephone.

Not much else is known about the Thesmophoria, as only women were allowed to attend, and it was rare that women wrote down anything at this time, short of letters.

The known features of Bona Dea's cults recall those of various earth and fertility goddesses of the Graeco-Roman world, especially the Thesmophoria festival to Demeter.

In ancient Greek religion, some important observances, such as the Thesmophoria, were conducted only by women ; men were excluded.

Thesmophoriazusae (, Thesmophoriazousai ; meaning Women Celebrating the Festival of the Thesmophoria, sometimes also called The Poet and the Women ) is one of eleven surviving plays by the master of Old Comedy, the Athenian playwright Aristophanes.

The women are incensed by his plays ' portrayal of the female sex as mad, murderous, and sexually depraved, and they are using the festival of the Thesmophoria ( an annual fertility celebration dedicated to Demeter ) as an opportunity to debate a suitable choice of revenge.

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