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It culminated in a ritual bath in the sea, three days of fasting and a pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Eleusis outside of Athens during a nine-day festival in early fall.

In her desolate wanderings she came to Eleusis and sat by the wayside near a well.

Also she went to the princes of Eleusis who had built her temple and she chose one, Triptolemus, to be her ambassador to men, instructing them how to sow the corn.

This faith was part of the mysteries of Eleusis.

The great temple was at Eleusis, a little town near Athens, and the worship was called the Eleusinian Mysteries.