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Quotation from The Homeric Hymns by Anonymous (Homeric)
“Happy is he among men upon earth who has seen these mysteries; but he who is uninitiate and who has no part in them, never has lot of like good things once he is dead, down in the darkness and gloom.”
The Homeric Hymns, Hymn II, To Demeter, ll. 480-482, trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914)
After teaching the Eleusinian lords her rites, Demeter's mysteries are praised for the hope they give the initiated after death.
Citation: "Happy is he among men upon earth who has seen these mysteries; but he who is uninitiate and who has no part in them, never has lot of like good things once he is dead, down in the darkness and gloom." — Anonymous (Homeric), The Homeric Hymns, Hymn II, To Demeter, ll. 480-482, trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914). (id homeric-hymns-q1)
