An Ancient Secret Ritual

Name: An Ancient Secret Ritual

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Lisbon Adventure Mediator
Seville Adventure Mediator

Reward Cash	106,000 Ð
Advance	10,000 Ð
Time Period	B.C.

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Have you heard of a 'secret ritual'? It's apparently a special ritual that a certain group of people had kept secret from outsiders for a long time. There's apparently a temple which had been famous for its secret ritual in Rome since ancient times. It's said that even an emperor of Rome participated in it. This is a request from a scholar to find this temple. The scholar in Naples should know something more about it.

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Recognition

4

Theology

6

Greek

1

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0

	An Ancient Greek Secret Ritual
	Naples - Scholar
Considering the fact that even an emperor of Rome had participated, even if it's a secret, the ritual must have been on a fairly large-scale. It's probably the one performed in Eleusis, Greece. For more information, you should ask a scholar in Athens since it's closer to Eleusis, they might have a better idea.

	Ritual at the Temple of Demeter
	Athens - Scholar
So you want to know about Eleusis' secret ritual? In ancient Greece, the temple of Demeter was very popular as a center of all kinds of rituals. Especially its secret ritual was widely known and participated by a number of important figures including Hadrian before his accession.

	A Gag Order
	Athens - Scholar
However, little is known about the ritual contents as participants were told to swear an oath of absolute secrecy. All we know about the ritual is that anyone could participate despite their birth, and that it had a theme based on Demeter's trip of suffering in search of her abducted daughter.

	The Lost Temple of Demeter
	Athens - Scholar
The temple of Demeter prospered for a long period of time, but it had finally fallen after Theodosius I had made Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire, and the Goths had invaded the empire. If you wish to have a look at it, I can tell you its rough location.

	To the Temple of Demeter
	Olympia - near southwestern Diagonal Boulder
In ancient Greece, the secret ritual performed at the temple of Demeter in Eleusis was well known. It's said that even Hadrian, before his accession, participated. The ruins of the temple are apparently located on the outskirts of Athens. Try searching around the diagonal boulder on the inland of West Athens.