Astronomy and ancient greek cult: an application of archaeoastronomy to greek religious architecture, cosmologies and landscapes
Boutsikas, Efrosyni.University of Leicester (United Kingdom), ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2007. U594489.
the temples were related to stellar constellations, not solar
p 9 the Minoans from their peak sanctuaries made time keeping, seasonal predictions so that cut practices would occur at the same time each year- the information was transferred to
Mycenaean culture and then mainland Greece
p13 - the Egyptian and Semitic influence on astrology in Greece
p 145 the Mycenaean megaron and the 4 consecutive temples to Demeter constructed on the ruins of their predecessors are all in the same orientation
p 146- the thesmophoria, to Demeter and Kore but separate from Eleusis- they were all over Greece and for married women, citizens only, was held in the open space- no initiation- to ensure the survival of the polis for food and legitimate heirs- not a mystery cult
The lesser and greater Eleusian had a great truce
p 156 the greater mysteries were celebrated every year with a special one every 4 years penteteris
p 158 Ptolemy relates Demeter to Virgo constellation, the star Spica related to the ear of wheat, comes from Babylonian origin, which was related to Ishtar, and this time period marked her decent into the underworld to find her husband Tammuz
p163 the Thesmophoria is a much older cult than the Greater mysteries, and by the 8th C there was a temple in every city
The Interactions of Ancient Astral Science by David BrownHempen Verlag Bremen 2018
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