Thesmophoria
noun
Thes·mo·pho·ria
| \ ˌthezməˈfōrēə\
plural -s
Definition of Thesmophoria
: a festival of Demeter as Thesmophoros or of Demeter and Kore celebrated by women and having as its essential ceremony the casting of pigs into chasms of the earth and the bringing up of their decaying flesh to be mixed with seed to insure fertility
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