The soul descends Corically [or after the manner of Proserpine] into generation, but is distributed into generation Dionysiacally, and she is bound in body Prometheiacally and Titanically: she frees herself therefore from its bonds by exercising the strength of Hercules; but she is collected into one through the assistance of Apollo and the savior Minerva, by philosophical discipline of mind and heart purifying the nature. – Olympiodorus
Orphic Mysteries
What Orpheus delivered in hidden allegories, Pythagoras learned when he was initiated into the Orphic Mysteries; and Plato next received a perfect knowledge of them from the Orphean and Pythagorean writings. – Proclus
Initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries
The perfective rite [τελετη, telete] precedes in order the initiation [μυησις, muesis], and initiation, the final apocalypse, epopteia.” – Proclus
Προηγειται γαρ, ἡ μεν τελετη της μυσεως, αυτη δε της εποπτειας.
Chanoyu
Cha-no-yu translates literally as “hot water for tea”.
The Japanese Tea Ceremony.