Sunday, April 8, 2012

To hell and back


Our second stop on our excursion was the the oracle of the dead, Necromanteion that was devoted to Hades and Persephone. The site was believed by devotees to be the door to Hades, the realm of the dead. Rituals here involved elaborate ceremonies wherein celebrants seeking to speak to the dead would start by gathering in the ziggurat-like temple and consuming a narcotic hallucinogen compound. Then decended into the underground corridor to where the nekyomanteia would pose a series of questions and chant prayers. 







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