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	Eleusis
		Triptolemos, receiving the seeds from the hands of Demeter, has to teach mankind how to cultivate the fields, while Kore keeps her hand over his head to protect him.This main story is depicted on the great Eleusinian relief (from the half of the 5th century BCE.), exhibited in the Archaeological National Museum in Athens.
		The procession of initiates with Kore and Iakchos in front of Demeter on the Ninnion Tablet (from the lst half of the 4th century BCE) in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens is showing many interesting details from the Eleusinian celebration.
		The second row of procession was led by torch-bearer Iakchos in the function of priest at the mysteries, who leads the way and holds torches for performance of the rites.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/e/eleusis.html (1333 words)

	SLOUCHING TOWARD BETHLEHEM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Iakchos continued to stare up into her eyes until she stopped trembling, then he lunged at her.
		Iakchos waited and when she broke their gaze, he sunk his teeth into her neck.
		Iakchos took it hard and had tried to kill me and my husband but I survived" Jacqueline said and pulled down the white t-shirt they had given her.
	www.angelfire.com /scifi/wawrzycki/todd/toe04.html (4020 words)

	Georg Ebers : A Thorny Path : Chapter V.
		With as much gay audacity--as though he were free of every care and grief, and had signed a compact with Fortune, he picked up pretty Ino, lifted her into the wagon, as Diodoros had done with his sister, and exclaiming, "The third performance!" seated himself by her side.
		The reserve of her calm and maidenly nature broke down; in her ecstasy she snatched from her shoulder the wreath of ivy with which Diodoros had decked her, and waved it aloft.
		They certainly sent up no joyful shout of "Iakchos!" no wild lament; no cheerful laughter nor sounds of mourning were to be heard from the long procession which passed along the street, two and two, at a slow pace.
	www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid.1/bookid.2385/sec.5 (5576 words)

	Iakchos [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Iakchos information on Wikimirror.com - read below for information on Iakchos.
		Greek deities Greek mythology comprises the collected legends of Greek gods and goddesses and ancient heroes and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition.
		Noting also that Bromius is a epithet of Dionysus, it can be assumed that Iacchus is too.
	www.wikimirror.com /Iakchos (734 words)

	ANISTORITON Journal of History, Archaeology, ArtHistory: An Object of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The central figure of the composition is Demeter with a corn in her hand making a gesture of blessing.
		She is surrounded by her children, Ploutos and Kore on the one side and Iakchos (the son of Demeter and Zeus) could be the figure on the other side while above her head is her messenger to mankind, Triptolemos.
		It is well known that the Greeks worshipped Iakchos during the Eleusinian Mysteries.
	www.anistor.co.hol.gr /english/enback/o032.htm (1470 words)

	Greek Travelogue - Eleusis
		Iakchos!” When they came to the bridge over the Kephisos river just outside Athens, a group of men and prostitutes disguised in masks were waiting to ridicule the procession, make obscene gestures, and shout insults and obscenities, all as a part of the ritual.
		He was Iakchos, whose name the initiates had shouted during the procession to Eleusis.
		Iakchos was the alter ego of Dionysus, the twice-born god who had mated with his own mother to give birth to himself.
	greek-myth.com /Pale_Horse/eleusis.htm (7741 words)

	Victor Herbert
		Light the festival!" "Come, Iakchos, come!" cried one and another, and soon the enthusiastic since emptied.
		Hard by, below the cliff, and close to the sea, was a tavern, at the sign for the drivers had been grumbling bitterly at the heavy load added to shade of a spreading sycamore, which had often before now served as a three sides by a trellised arbor, overgrown with figs and vine.
		The dragged up a huge wine-jar with two ears, full of the red juice of the branches of the sycamore, the youths took their places eager for the unbidden, and as though inspired by some mysterious power: Iakchos, come!
	www.freearchive.info /vi/victor-herbert.html (420 words)

	Road to Eleusis
		Every step of the way recalled some aspect of an ancient myth that told how the Earth Mother, the goddess Demeter, had lost her only daughter, the maiden Persephone, abducted as she gathered flowers by her bridegroom, who was Hades or the lord of death.
		The pilgrims called upon Iakchos as they walked.
		It was he who was thought to lead them on their way: through him, they would summon back the queen Persephone into the realm of the living.
	www.telesterion.com /roadto.htm (1585 words)

	The Charge of the Dark God (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Listen to the words of the Dark God, who was of old called Iakchos, Donn, Anubis, Hades, Setesh, Hoder, & many other names:
		I am the shadow in the bright day; I am the reminder of mortality at the height of living.
		Blow me a kiss when the sky is dark, and I will smile, but no kiss returns; for my kiss is the final one for all moral flesh.
	www.angelfire.com /in/wiccangarden/DarkGod.html (203 words)

	EINSTUERZENDE NEUBAUTEN: Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		He is the companion of every man and woman and he has made me his wife.
		My fate has brought me to his festival on this island and Theseus and I, we both caught fire from the wine and laughter and we felt that one-ness with the feast which is Iakchos' magic gift.
		But when that year's King was brought on a gilded ship from the holy islet just off-shore with a mad gaiety in his shadowed eyes, I was drawn to join the maenads with the Queen.
	www.neubauten.org /forum20/view_topic.php?topic_id=488&forum_id=3 (1467 words)

	The children of Demeter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		They are both Gods of Mysteries, and they both promise initiates a new life after this one.
		Whilst Dionysus oversees his own Bacchic revels, he also plays a pivotal role in the Eleusinian Mysteries as Iakchos.
		There are tantalizing suggestions that the Mysteries may include the birth of a sacred child, Brimos, or 'Strength'.
	www.templeofdemeter.com /children.html (600 words)

	Ancient Hymns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Swinging your firebrand in your hand - light in the darkness of night - you arrived in your enthusiastic frenzy in the flower-covered vale of Eleusis - euhoi, o io Bakchos, o ie Paian!
		There the entire Greek nation, surrounding the indigenous witnesses of the holy Mysteries, invokes you as Iakchos: you have opened for mankind a haven, relief from suffering.
		Choral Ode to Iakchos from The Frogs (Aristophanes)
	www.winterscapes.com /dionysus/hymns1.htm (2210 words)

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		Listen to the words of the Dark God
		Iakchos, Donn, Anubis, Hades, Setesh, Hoder and by many other names:
		I am the shadow in the bright day,
	www.users.qwest.net /~kryaxx/BoS/Page_Charge_of_Dark_God.html (209 words)

	The Project Gutenberg EBook A Thorny Path, by Georg Ebers, v2
		cried one and another, shouting and laughing, with loud calls on Iakchos.
		chorus shouted, "Iakchos!" again and again, her soul seemed to have taken
		The youth she loved gazed at her with ravished eyes, as at some miracle;
	worldebooklibrary.com /eBooks/Gutenberg/etext04/ge92v10.htm (11806 words)

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