(μύησις/mýēsis, Lat. initiatio). Myesis is the initiation into a mystery (μυστήρια/mystḗria, Lat. initia) whereby the candidate for initiation became a μύστης (mýstēs, Lat. initiatus, initiated). As an additional rank the initiated could later attain the epopteía .
As nomen actionis for the verb μυέω/myéō (‘I initiate’; lat. initiare), which is considered a causativum to μύω/mýō (‘I close [lips/eyes]’), myesis semantically presupposes the term mýstēs, which, like mystḗria, is not derived from myéō but rather from mýō [1; 7. 414f.]. This derivation, which…