Demeter and her daughter, Persephone, were a large part of the Eleusinian mysteries. TLDR Demeter is the goddess of the harvest, grain, and agriculture. Given the connection between the Eleusinian mysteries and barley, this makes sense. Likewise, the seasonality of Demeter's purview makes her an excellent symbol of the cycle of death and rebirth. Persephone's story revolves around that same seasonality, making her inclusion in the Eleusinian mysteries as a symbol apropos.
Demeter's chariot is said to have been pulled by 2 serpents. It also is said to have had wings.
Serpents and wings, feathers, or flight are symbolic of enlightenment. Enlightenment is simply activation of all chakras. Humans have the lower 3(red, orange, yellow) and the top 1 (crown, violet) active. Based upon how we live our lives, we can activate the heart chakra(green), wisdom chakra(blue), and 3rd eye chakra(indigo).
7 chakras, 7 colors. Merge their "magnetic light" and you get the brilliant white/golden light of enLIGHTenment.
Serpents:
We know that we have this subtle, magnetic energy body we can call the "aura". We know there are 7 "energy centers" stacked along the central nervous system's core manifold, the head and spinal cord. If there are 7 chakras, are there any other elements of the human "energy body"?
Yes. There are "secondary" and "tertiary" energy centers located in other places like some joints or even beyond the physical body. Paths through which this magnetic energy flows are called "nadis" in the Hindu tradition. There are 3 main nadis that serve the chakras: Ida, Pingala, and Sushumna. If you look up the Caduceus symbol, you'll see a staff with a pinecone on top with 2 wings and 2 serpents crisscrossing their way up the staff. That is a representation of Ida, Pingala, and Sushumna, as well as the third eye. The 2 serpents represent Ida and Pingala. The staff represents Sushumna. The pinecone represents the pineal gland colocated with the 3rd eye chakra.
What else? There's a special bit of energy that normally lays dormant, wrapped up 3.5x around the Root Chakra. The Hindus call this Kundalini Shakti. Kundalini in Sanskrit means "coiled". This special bit of coiled up energy resembles a serpent. It is THIS serpent that is the root of basically all of the serpent symbolism found worldwide perennially (including the commonly misunderstood Garden of Eden story).
When a previously dormant chakra is activated, that "serpent" leaps upwards to the height of the highest chakra being activated through the normally not used Sushumna nadi (represented by the staff on the Caduceus).
If the Eleusinian mysteries were about showing auras to initiates, more than likely there was at least one fully enlightened master in the "cult" who could serve as a living example for the tripping initiates to inspect. They could see all the chakras active and potentially see spirit energy flowing through Sushumna in that person.
The wisdom chakra corresponds with "Da'ath" in Kabbalah on the Tree of Life. Da'ath goes with "rebirth" and "born again" and the "dark night of the soul" and "salvation" and "the Phoenix rising from its own ashes". It corresponds with the "ego death" that is commonly associated with enlightenment cases and many kundalini awakening cases.
Thus, Demeter's role as a symbol of the cycle of death and rebirth plays at the "spiritual evolution" level, but it also plays at the "reincarnate until you spiritually evolve" level. Seeing the "spirit body" as being something separable from the physical body allowed initiates to see that 'the same electric current flow may light different lamps in sequence' no different from the same spirit animating different bodies in sequence but on a different time scale.
Wings:
The universe is composed of different "densities". You may think of them as "dimensions" but density is perhaps more useful as it disambiguates the term from measured dimensions like height, width, and depth, but also because it's more accurate in the nuance.
We can only see a certain visible range of light but we know that IR and UV exist beyond the visible range. We know that dog whistles are audible to dogs but not humans, so, again, we can only hear a certain audible range of sound but we know sounds exist beyond that range.
Why would physical matter be any different?
Those "higher densities" of existence mutually interpenetrate one another, so while we're "here, now", we're also a part of those higher densities. It's just that everything there is vibrating so fast that it is not interoperable with the matter composing these flesh suit avatars or the sensory ranges that came part and parcel.
Physics gets wonky around the speed of light. Near death experiencers often talk about having been surrounded by love and light during their NDE. UFO/UAP sightings often have light and physics anomalies associated with them. Saints and angels and holy figures are often depicted with a halo of light around them. Enlightenment is a thing. The Illuminati are a thing.
I would propose that the "ceiling" of this density is light speed and that, in order to exist in the next density, one must self-birth a light body whilst here in this density. Activating all chakras is activating a full "light body". Entities we call "angels", "gods", "goddesses", and, in most instances, "aliens" are really just "spiritual upperclassmen" who have already achieved enLIGHTenment in a previous incarnation in this density. "Achieving enlightenment" in this density seems to essentially be the self-birthing of a light body capable of existing in a density above light speed.
With that in mind, we consider the Feather of Ma'at from Egypt. The feather of Ma'at was weighed against the soul of the person. If the soul was LIGHTer than the feather, the soul "passed the test" so to speak. This, in my opinion, is meant to represent the protocol I described in the previous paragraph.
Essentially, feathers, wings, and flight all symbolize enlightenment, which makes sense for multiple reasons.
Enlightenment is about reuniting that serpent, Kundalini Shakti, wrapped around the root chakra 3.5x, with the Crown Chakra. It is said that Kundalini Shakti is "the Divine Feminine". The "Divine Masculine" is located in the Crown Chakra, hence, to reunite them is to activate all of the chakras which brings the serpent all the way up to the crown. Predator birds a.k.a. raptors, are often depicted engaged with a serpent. The symbol of the raptor bird bringing the serpent upwards is a symbol of activation of higher chakras and enlightenment.
1. You have Ezekiel's chariot, the Merkabah, from which "light was shining out all around it". Merkabah is about enlightenment too. Ka is a representation of the Divine Masculine. Ba is a representation of the Divine Feminine. That's why Kabbalah contains both of those words as well. Kabbalah is about activation of higher chakras, Divine Masculine, Divine Feminine, and enlightenment.
2. Chariot, when broken down, comes from the Greek letters Chi and Rho. I'll try to find my previous post on Chi and Rho. See previous post linked below on the meaning of Chi and Rho:
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