Healing and Transformation

Comparison Between

The Eleusinian Mysteries and The Jewish High Holy Days

Lighting of Torches	Lighting of Candles
Purification in the Sea	Tashlich
Wearing white clothes	Wearing the white Kittel
Day of honoring the dead	Day of honoring the dead
Time of Sacrifices	Rosh Hashonah-time of sacrifices
Offering a rooster to Asklepios	Offering of roosters by men and hens by women for fertility
Preparation and display of baskets	Braiding baskets for the small children of the house 2 weeks before Rosh Hashonah
Pomegranates sacred symbol, apples and pomegranates pro-hibited from consumption	Eating apples and pomegranates for long life
Pig sacred to Demeter	Pig taboo
Wheat, barley, grains, corn-gift of	Wheat and barley sown in children's baskets
Beans belonged to the Underworld	Beans planted in children's baskets
Kroke-red cord sign of initiate	Red cord-sign of Holy Prostitute
Time of Sacred Marriage	Weddings prohibited between Rosh Hoshanah & Yom Kippur
Ram slaughtered for the lesser Mysteries-Demeter sits on fleece	The blowing of the ram's horn-Shofar
9 days of ceremony	10 days of ceremony (same time of year)
Offerings	Charity
The beginning of new life	The beginning of New Year/New life

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