Purification & Cleanliness | HELLENISM 101

A little bit late 😅but here it is! The fourth part in my series: HELLENISM 101 is about cleanliness and purification in Hellenism how it looked historically, some misconceptions and how it can work today.

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RESOURCES & SOURCES ON CLEANLINESS & PURIFICATION:
• Greek Religion by Walter Burkert
• A Companion to Greek Religion by Daniel Ogden
• Purification in Homer by M. M. Gillies
• Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion by Robert Parker
• Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion: Volume I: Early Greek Religion by Andrej and Ivana Petrovic
• The Odyssey by Homer *
• The Iliad by Homer *
• Works and Days by Hesiod *
• Oedipus Rex by Sophocles *
• Characters by Theophrastus *
• Poetics by Aristotle *

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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Introduction
0:32 Very brief discussion on pollution
1:19 What is the purpose of cleanliness & purification?
1:41 To separate mundane from divine
2:37 To be clean for the gods
3:51 To conform to a group
5:50 Philosophy conundrum 4 U
6:35 Historical considerations
8:32 Purification by water
9:06 Purification by fumigation and fire
9:49 Purification by changing clothes
10:17 Purification by scapegoat
11:11 Note on veiling
12:08 Ritual defilement
14:20 Cleanliness expectations
16:16 Mystery cults & inner purity
18:45 Catharsis through art & intellect
19:46 Modern considerations
20:01 Modern ways to use water
20:17 The Great Khernip Debate™
22:44 Modern ways to use fire & fumigation
23:48 Modern ways to use scapegoats
24:27 Modern Veiling
25:05 Modern considerations of intellectual and artistic purification
25:41 Conclusion

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