Lampadon Hemera

Lampadon Hemera

(from , a torch and , a day), the name given to the fifth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries (q.v.), because on that day the initiated marched two and two in procession, each with a torch in his hand, into the temple of Ceres at Eleusis.

Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature