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A Adiaphoron - indifference to external things Agape - love in the fullest sense Agon - struggle, competition Aidos - shame, modesty Aion - age; great period of time Akousmata - things heard; oral teachings Anamnesis - recollection; the Platonic belief that all learning is remembering what was once known by the soul in past lives Ananke - necessity Angelos - divine messenger Anthropos - man Aparchai - first-fruit offerings Aporrheton - forbidden, secret Apotropaic - averting evil Arche - first principle Archon - chief magistrate Arete - virtue, excellence Arrheton - unspeakable Asebia - impiety Autarkeia - self-suffiency B Basilinna - queen Basileus - king Bebackcheumenos - inspired with frenzy by Dionysos Bios - life; a rule of life or conduct Bomos - raised altar for sacrifices to the Olympians Bothros - a trench into which sacrifices for the Khthonic Gods are placed Boule - deliberation; a Council D Dadouchos - torchbearer Daimon - lesser divinities; a guardian spirit Deimata - terrifying events Deipnon - feasts Didaskalia - instruction Dromena - things done; ritual Dynamis - power E Eidolion - place where the image is housed Eirene - peace Entheos - possessed by a God Epiphany - manifestation of a God Epistates - supervisor Epoptes - watcher; highest grade in the Eleusinian mysteries Ethos - habit; the total of one's actions or character Eudamonia - true happiness Eulogeo - blessings Euonomia - good order Eusebia - piety, revrance for the Gods G Gamos - wedding Gnosis - knowledge, especially of an esoteric or spiritual nature H Hagneia - purity Hedone - pleasure, the goal of life in Epicureanism Hakatomb - sacrifice of 100 cattle; any great sacrifice Hellenion - a Greek temple set in a foreign land Hellenismos - the religion and culture of the Greeks Heroon - the grave of a hero Hestia - the hearth Hetaireia - club, association of citizens Hiereia - [pl. hiereiai] priestess Hierophantes - he who shows sacred things Hieros - sacred Hierus - [pl. hiereis] priest Hubris - overweening pride, affront to status for the purpose of public humiliation K Kakodaimon - evil spirit Katabasis - descent (into the underworld) Katharmos - rite of purification Katharsis - purification Khaire - [pl. khairete] greetings; be happy Khthonoi - earth or underworld Gods, as well as the spirits of the dead Kiste - basket in which sacred things are kept Kledon - a type of omen drawn from random things overheard Koinon - common, club Komos - a group of revelers devoted to Dionysos Kykeon - a barley drink at Eleusis Kymbala - cymbals L Liknon - winnowing basket Logos - speech, tale, account; in many philosophical schools, the Ordering Principle in the Kosmos M Makaria - happiness Mania - frenzy Mantis - a seer, prophet Mathein - to learn Melamphoros - wearing black Metampsychosis - transmigration of souls Miasma - ritual pollution Mimesis - imitation or representation Mneme - memory Mousikos - being cultured Myein - to initiate Myesis - initiation Myrionmos - of countless names Mysteria - mysteries Mystes - [pl. mystai] initiate Mystikos - mystic Mystipolos - celebrating mysteries Mythos - a traditional story, usually about the Gods or heroes N Naos - temple Nemesis - righteous indignation Nomos - law, custom Nous - mind, intelligence O Oikos - household, both the place and people belonging to it Ololyge - ritual cry Olympioi - the Olympian Gods, either because they dwell on Mount Olympos, or from lampo "the shining ones" Omophagia - eating raw flesh Orgia - rituals Orthodoxy - right belief Orthopraxy - right practice Ouranian - heavenly Ousia - essence P Paian - a hymn of praise for Apollon Paideia - education Paligenesia - rebirth Paradosis - transmission, tradition Paredros - divine consort Pathos - [pl. pathea, pathe] suffering Patrios nomos - ancestral custom Phileo - tender affection Philanthropia - love for mankind Phthora - passing out of existence; annihilation Phratry - brotherhood; ancient family associations Physis - nature Pistis - faith Pneuma - spirit Polis - city-state Politeia - citizenship, civil activity Pompe - procession Praxis - action Prutaneis - priestly civic officials Psyche - soul Pros theon - by the Gods! S Sige - silence Soma - body Sophrosune - self-restraint, prudence, or discretion Soteria - salvation Sponde - [pl. spondai] drink-offerings Stoicheia - the elements Symbolon - token Symmystes - fellow-initiate Sympatheia - simultaneous affection Synthema - password T Telein - to celebrate, to initiate Telestes - initiation priest Telete - ceremony, initiation Temenos - sacred precinct Thanatos - death Thelema - will Theoi - the Gods Theologia - speaking about the Gods Theophoretos - possessed by a God Theoros - [pl. theoroi] sacred envoys; priests Thiasos - religious association Tholos - round house, headquarters of the prytaneis Thusia - sacrifice Thymos - the seat of emotions within the soul Time - honor or public acclaim To hen - the One; ultimate divine source in Neoplatonism Tympanon - tambourine X Xenia - hospitality Z Zoe - life principle |
