mystery cult

Mystery cults thus died out near the start of the fifth century.

Here he established the centre for his mystery cult.

Rome was also the base of several mystery cults, such as Mithraism.

Evidence about interactions between Christianity and the mystery cults is poor, making the question difficult to resolve.

As a result, the possibility has often been raised that Christianity was directly influenced by the mystery cults.

In the Hellenistic era the term became associated with the mystery cults.

It was in Antioch that followers of a new mystery cult were first called Christians.

He has also given two series of public talks on Gnosticism, and on ancient mystery cults.

Beyond their graphic quality, these prints may have been linked to sacred rites or mystery cults.

These two gifts were intimately connected in Demeter's myths and mystery cults.

Instead there is a mystery cult, nameless and obscure, that will stop at nothing to stamp out that name from either public or private knowledge.

Several of these were Mystery cults.

It is unclear how ancient such beliefs were, as they seem influenced by Greek mythology and mystery cults.

Olympias was from Epirus and may have practiced a mystery cult that involved snake-handling.

They claimed that many elements of Greek philosophy and culture came from Egypt, including the mystery cults.

As if made for a Euclidean mystery cult, it is classically modern and modernistically timeless.

Orpheus's voice and lyre-playing represented a medium of revelation or higher knowledge for the mystery cults.

This followed the hierarchical patterns of the various mystery cults that were popular at the time in the Roman Empire.

Bowden, Hugh - Mystery cults of the ancient world.

In it, the author devoted a single paragraph to the kinship of Roman "mystery cults" with Christianity.

A heretical Jewish prophet founded a mystery cult which took root everywhere, for men despaired of this life.

Joining Isis's cult was therefore a sharper change in identity than in many other mystery cults.

The gods of some mystery cults may have been exceptions, but evidence about those cults' afterlife beliefs is vague.

Their rites thus acquired some of the aura of secrecy that surrounded the mystery cults.

Their investigation takes them all over Athens, from mystery cult worship services to a symposium hosted by Plato.