procession 测验

Thus the whole scene is a wilderness of brightness, less radiant but more touching than when processions of men and maidens bearing urns and laurel-branches, crowned with ivy or with myrtle, paced along those sandstone roads, chanting paeans and prosodial hymns, toward the glistening porches and hypaethral cells.

The bearers of the mystic cists in the Ceresian and Eleusinian processions were called Cistophori and Canephorae.