Circe and Odysseus, white-ground lekythos by the Athena Painter, ca. 490–480 BC. From Eretria National Archaeological Museum in Athens, 1133.
Kykeon (Ancient Greek: κυκεών, kykeȏn; from κυκάω, kykáō; "to stir, to mix") was an Ancient Greek drink of various descriptions. Some were made mainly of water, barley and naturally occurring substances. Others were made with wine and grated cheese.[1] It is widely believed that kykeon usually refers to a psychoactive compounded brew, as in the case of the Eleusinian Mysteries.[2] A kykeon was used at the climax of the Eleusinian Mysteries to break a sacred fast, but it is also mentioned as a favourite drink of Greek peasants.
^Guthrie, W. K. C. (1978). A History of Greek Philosophy. Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press. p. 449.
^González Wagner, Carlos (1984). Psicoactivos, misticismo y religión en el mundo antiguo. Complutense University of Madrid.
Kykeon (Ancient Greek: κυκεών, kykeȏn; from κυκάω, kykáō; "to stir, to mix") was an Ancient Greek drink of various descriptions. Some were made mainly...
grains, and possibly adding other ingredients, for example sugar. Kykeon (Gr. κυκεών - kykeōn, from κυκάω, "to stir, to mix") was an ancient Greek drink made...
Demeter's search for Persephone. At some point, initiates had a special drink (kykeon), of barley and pennyroyal, which has led to speculation about its chemicals...
red wine but accepts a kykeon made of water, flour, and pennyroyal. Used as a ritual beverage in the Eleusinian Mysteries, kykeon was also a popular beverage...
these were sometimes used to grate goat's cheese in the making of a type of Kykeon, a fast breaking drink. The modern cheese grater was invented in France...
back to the earliest stages of the Eleusinian Mysteries. The preparatory kykeon or mixed drink of the initiates, prepared from barley and herbs, mentioned...
where happiness and transports, where joy and felicities combine... The kykeon that preceded initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries is another entheogen...
Clement of Alexandria, include a similar formula: "I fasted; I drank the kykeon [water with meal]; I took from the sacred chest; I wrought therewith and...
of decay; mint was an element in the fermented barley drink called the kykeon that was an essential preparatory entheogen for participants in the Eleusinian...
compounds have been derived from ergot ingredients. It has been posited that Kykeon, the beverage consumed by participants in the ancient Greek Eleusinian Mysteries...
and ancient Egypt and is one of the world's oldest prepared beverages. Kykeon was a common beverage of sustenance in ancient Greece, most often consisting...
of rye and is similar in structure to LSD. Ergot of rye was part of the Kykeon, the drink which was a component of the Eleusinian mysteries. The psychedelic...
have proposed that the power of the Eleusinian Mysteries came from the kykeon's functioning as an entheogen. The apophatic theology, or "negative theology"...
processes of how to produce alcoholic beverages, such as wine, ale, beer, kykeon, mead, kumis, absinthe, etc. (although an alternate account states that...
vocalists including Kristen Perry, who co-wrote a demo version of the song "Kykeon." Hearing these early cassette recordings while studying abroad in London...
festival of Demeter at the Eleusinian Mysteries, where the initiates drank kykeon. Linnda R. Caporael posited in 1976 that the hysterical symptoms of young...
(Resumed): 763. doi:10.1039/jr9320000763. Perrine DM (2000). "Mixing the Kykeon" (PDF). ELEUSIS: Journal of Psychoactive Plants and Compounds. New Series...
for her to drink red wine and she instead invents a new beverage called kykeon to drink instead. The fact that Demeter refuses to drink wine on the grounds...
of credibility. Another much written about topic is the content of the Kykeon, the sacrament used during the Eleusinian mysteries in ancient Greece between...
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