Here I am at Lollapalooza and I can't stop seeing the connections between this massive gathering and the ancient Greek rites. People gather for an intense experience. They parade in long lines. They make their sacrifices (pigs, money, what's the diff). They get their wristbands (in the Mysteries it was a saffron ribbon). They revel. They reveal.
I wonder if the Eleusinian Mysteries ever reached the ecstatic peak of Lollapalooza... Did Persephone do a stage dive after rising in the flames of the Telesterion... Did Security protect the priestess when crowd went wild?
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