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Mystery religions, mystery cults, sacred mysteries or simply mysteries, were religious schools of the Greco-Roman world for which participation was reserved...29 KB (4,192 words) - 08:49, 17 June 2024
The Eleusinian Mysteries (Greek: Ἐλευσίνια Μυστήρια, romanized: Eleusínia Mystḗria) were initiations held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone...53 KB (6,748 words) - 09:58, 24 June 2024
Mithraism (redirect from Mithraic Mysteries)of all the other mystery cults too." He adds that at the individual level, various individuals did hold roles both in the state cults and the priesthood...182 KB (20,830 words) - 15:09, 20 June 2024
his or her worshippers. The gods of some mystery cults may have been exceptions, but evidence about those cults' afterlife beliefs is vague. Apuleius's...69 KB (9,431 words) - 11:45, 11 October 2023- Bacchanalia (redirect from Bacchanalian cult)Like all mystery cults, the Bacchanalia were held in strict privacy, and initiates were bound to secrecy; what little is known of the cult and its rites...17 KB (2,134 words) - 22:00, 23 June 2024
- Ceremonies of ancient Greece (section Mystery cults)knowledge of mystery cults were only supposed to be available to their initiates, so relatively little is known about the mystery cults of Ancient Greece...17 KB (2,325 words) - 19:02, 17 December 2023
Isis (redirect from Cult of Isis)Christianity and the Isis cult had an initiation rite: the mysteries for Isis, baptism in Christianity. One of the mystery cults' shared themes—a god whose...126 KB (16,485 words) - 11:33, 6 May 2024
death-rebirth theme, common among agricultural cults such as the Eleusinian Mysteries. The Osirian Mysteries paralleled the Dionysian, according to contemporary...20 KB (2,447 words) - 12:39, 17 May 2024
Cabeiri (redirect from Cabirian mysteries)accounts of the two cults differ in detail. But the two islands are close to each other, at the northern end of the Aegean, and the cults are at least similar...18 KB (2,372 words) - 18:57, 28 May 2024
Thracian religion (redirect from Balkan cult)the mystery cults were attributes of investiture. The arrival of the cult of Zagreus-Dionysus in Thrace and its initial struggle with the solar cult is...244 KB (34,237 words) - 10:01, 24 May 2024
Jupiter Dolichenus (category Greco-Roman mysteries)order to give their cults legitimacy and to distinguish them from the cults of the traditional Roman gods. Like the other mystery cults (including the other...29 KB (3,355 words) - 15:41, 3 July 2024
Orgia (category Eleusinian Mysteries)an ecstatic form of worship characteristic of some mystery cults. The orgion is in particular a cult ceremony of Dionysos (or Zagreus), celebrated widely...5 KB (592 words) - 21:17, 26 September 2023
Religion in ancient Rome (section Absorption of Cults)self-flagellation. Rome's native cults to the grain goddess Ceres and her daughter Libera were supplemented with a mystery cult of Ceres-with-Proserpina, based...142 KB (19,091 words) - 23:19, 8 July 2024
to like the prevailing religion of the time, criticizing the popular mystery cults, blood sacrifice, and prayer to statues. He also did not believe in...120 KB (13,618 words) - 12:42, 11 July 2024
Reincarnation (section Mystery cults)Glasgow. Bjorling, J. (2013). Reincarnation: A Bibliography. Sects and Cults in America (in German). Taylor & Francis. p. 96. ISBN 978-1-136-51133-2...154 KB (18,771 words) - 01:48, 3 July 2024
nature. In most of her myths and cults, Demeter is the "Grain-Mother" or the "Earth-Mother". In the older chthonic cults the earth goddess was related to...91 KB (10,266 words) - 12:45, 20 June 2024- in the civic religion, and as initiates of other mystery cults. Orphic speculation influenced the cult of Mithras at times. In Orphic cosmogony, Phanes...29 KB (3,712 words) - 08:33, 4 May 2024
Ancient Greek religion (redirect from Panhellenic cults)who were not satisfied by the public cult of the gods could turn to various mystery religions that operated as cults into which members had to be initiated...58 KB (7,680 words) - 10:43, 5 July 2024
Origin of the Eucharist (section Mystery cults)drinking of blood was acceptable. First-century folk who participated in mystery cult rituals were no more tolerant of cannibalism than we are. There is no...76 KB (8,970 words) - 18:15, 10 July 2024
characteristic feature of ancient Near Eastern mythologies and the derived mystery cults of late antiquity. "Death or departure of the gods" is motif A192 in...28 KB (3,452 words) - 02:14, 12 July 2024
- mystery cults plural of mystery cult
- fervid and deeply emotional worship of the mystery cults. The greatest of these devastating cults was the mystery religion of the Mother of God sect, which
- a time when religion was kept secret from popular belief within the mystery cults like a holy fire, sharing a common sanctuary with philosophy. The legends
- population concerning a perception of increased recruiting by fringe cults. Those cults allegedly brainwashed young and weak individuals into leaving their