Messianity and Eleusinian Mysteries
As was highlighted in the essay From Eleusis to Florence: the Transmission of Secret Knowledge, in the Eleusian Mystery Tradition humanity is considered the daughter of the ancient Titan Gods, defeated by the new Olympic Gods in an epic war, the Titanomachy, narrated to us by Hesiod in his Theogony, but whose memory and profound echo has always been present in all the traditions of ancient peoples, from the Mediterranean to the Near East, from Asia to the Americas. In particular, Eleusian Tradition attributes the creation of this humanity to the four sons of the Titan God Hyaphethos (Iapetus, in Greek Ιαπετός): Atlas (in Greek Ἄτλας), Menoetius (in Greek Μενοίτιος or Μενοίτης), Prometheus (in Greek Προµηθεύς) and Epimetheus (in Greek Ἐπιµηθεύς), who created man and woman in their image and likeness.
Eleusinity teaches us that Atlas gave man Knowledge and Life, Menoetius both internal and external Strength, Prometheus the male seed and Epimetheus the female seed. The Titans then, jointly, gave humanity the “Night”, a term that expresses a concept superior to that of “soul” that we commonly understand, the very concept of the titanic divine essence, which, through and thanks to the work of these four Titans dwell in every man today.