 The text uses the pomegranate symbol in order to hint at the residence of the dead in the underworld and their periodical return to the world of the living.Octavio Vazquez's symphonic poem "Eleusis" draws on the Eleusinian Mysteries and on other Western esoteric traditions.Commissioned by the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores and the RTVE Symphony Orchestra, it was premiered in 2015 by the RTVE Orchestra and conductor Adrian Leaper at the Teatro Monumental in Madrid.