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1)Mystery
a.Comes from the Greek word for ‘mysterion’ which means ‘secret religious ritual’ or ‘religious secret’
b.The Greeks had religious celebrations which were secret and anyone taking part had to swear a vow of secrecy.
c.Anyone who broke the vow was executed.
d.We still don’t really know what happened when the participants went into the building.
e.Some believe that they took drugs or even murder!

Hi everyone, and welcome to the segment called 【It Means What?】 hi 安澜.
Hi lulu, hi everyone.
欢迎大家回来【词源考古研究所】这个板块. So in this segment, we're going to explore the interesting origin of words and phrases. So 安澜, what is the word for today?
Today's word is Mystery.
Mystery就是神秘. I love mystery, movies, books and I especially love murder mystery.
Oh, I love murder mystery, Miss Marple, Agatha Christie, Sherlock Holmes, all of those mysteries I love.
Yes, do you know Miss Marple is Agatha Christie?
Yes, I know, but I was trying to think of some more.
Yet, you only come up with two, but okay, let's come back to the word mystery. I'm sure mystery has a mysterious origin.
 It comes from the Greek word ‘mysterion’ .
 Mysterion, r-i-o-n.
Which means a secret religious ritual or a religious secret.
Okay. So originated from like a religious context 是有宗教背景的是吗? Yeah.
So many of you have probably listened to our episodes on the Greek myths, so the Greeks had lots of different gods. There was one particular god when they worshipped her.
Her?
It was her. When they worshiped her, they actually had secret rituals.
Was this like an evil goddess or something? No.
It was a fertility goddess responsible for the earth and farming.
叫丰产的女神, 但是大家的崇拜仪式都得是在secret都得是私下在秘密保密进行.
The most famous version of these were called the mysteries, and the celebrations, the rituals, everything was secret and anyone taking part had to swear a vow of secrecy.
Hang on a minute. You said the most famous ones were called mysteries. Do you mean when you say mysteries this referred to the rituals themselves? 当时的一系列这种仪式就叫做Mysteries or Mysterion. Yeah, or mysteria.
Ok. And then you said people who were involved and as they had to swear a vow of secrecy就是要保密, 要做这种保密宣誓, 就保密承诺. Yes. Is this like nowadays signing the confidentiality agreement or something?
In those days, it was even stricter because anyone who broke the vow was executed or killed.
Yeah, I'm sorry. This is like one of those stories that didn't really make a logical sense because if everyone who were ever involved in those mysteria swore a vow of secrecy, then how did we know?
All we know is that these rituals took place, but nobody knows what happened. So these rituals happened in a huge temple, in a town very close to Athens, the modern capital of Greece.