to travel to Athens, gather below the Acropolis in the Eleusinion, and then move with a great throng of people in solemn procession to Eleusis itself. The willingness to disrupt one’s life to go to the place of power reveals both religion’s ability to “organize life around itself” and how Greco-Roman religion in all these manifestations truly was about access to a divine power that could benefit humans in specific ways. It is important to note that these modes of accessibility to divine power were
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