Persephone
Mysterion, is a word (μυστήριον) which does not sound in the modern English sense of mystery, as in something to be solved, an ending or a motive which will be revealed, as in Sherlock Holmes, or Agatha Christie, or Ruth Ware. Which is mixing apples and oranges, I know, but if I said Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, would my youngish readers make the connection to the television series Bones? Of course, witness the flurry of intense interest in the recent stories about Amelia Earhart--we are keen to have these mysteries solved, but we cleave to the idea of an unsolved mystery. Easteār Island. The five thousand blackbirds that threw themselves into building and poles, dying on New Year's Eve in 2010 in Arkansas. Still these mysteries imply a solution, as yet undetermined, but still, determinable. Mysterion is inherently mystical. In the Biblical Greek, mysterion means "that which awaits disclosure or interpretation." It's not meant to be solved, not meant to be determine