Mystery religions, mystery cults, sacred mysteries or simply mysteries, were religious schools of the Greco-Roman world for which participation was reserved...

as a mystery religion reserved for the initiated, many aspects of the Dionysian cult remain unknown and were lost with the decline of Greco-Roman polytheism;...

The Greco-Roman civilization (/ˌɡriːkoʊˈroʊmən, ˌɡrɛkoʊ-/; also Greco-Roman culture or Greco-Latin culture; spelled Graeco-Roman in the Commonwealth),...

The mysteries of Isis were religious initiation rites performed in the cult of the Egyptian goddess Isis in the Greco-Roman world. They were modeled on...

initiation of a bride into a Greco-Roman mystery cult. These are now among the best known of the relatively rare survivals of Ancient Roman painting from the 1st...

god, with early Christianity beginning as a Greco-Roman mystery. The book and its "Jesus Mysteries thesis" have not been accepted by mainstream scholarship...

doi:10.12797/CC.17.2014.17.03. Robertson, Noel. "Orphic Mysteries and Dionysiac Ritual." Greek Mysteries: the Archaeology and Ritual of Ancient Greek Secret...

paganism Gnosticism Greco-Buddhism Greco-Roman mysteries Hellenism Hermeticism Humanism Interpretatio graeca Magic in the Greco-Roman world Neoplatonism...

Look up mystery in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mystery, The Mystery, Mysteries or The Mysteries may refer to: Mystery, a cat character in Emily the...

evidence that patrons of the Roman cult ever performed such a rite. Like all Greco-Roman mysteries, the Mithraic Mysteries was limited to initiates, and...

(Theosis) Esoteric Christianity Gnosticism Greco-Roman mysteries Mystical theology Patristic theology Sacred mysteries Theoria Yarnold 1994, pp. 55–58. Cross...

several things, including Ancient Greek religion Greek hero cult Greco-Roman mysteries Hellenistic religion Platonic idealism Greek Church (disambiguation)...

their mystery cults persisted well into the Principate of the Roman Imperial era. The Bacchanalia were Roman festivals of Bacchus, the Greco-Roman god of...

which advances the argument that early Christianity originated as a Greco-Roman mystery cult and that Jesus was invented by early Christians based on an...

mystery religions concerned with the afterlife, such as the mysteries of Cybele, the Dionysian mysteries, Orphic religion, and the Mithraic mysteries...

definition of Irenaeus' groups to include other syncretic faiths and the Greco-Roman mysteries. In Gnosticism, Sophia is a feminine figure, analogous to the human...

doctrines of the early church and allowed traditional Greco-Roman culture (i.e., Greco-Roman mysteries, deities of solar monism such as Mithras and Sol Invictus...

lost history of Sicily by Timaeus of Tauromenium (c. 356 – c. 260 BC). The Roman orator Cicero (c. 106 – c. 43 BC), who may have read it in the texts of...

Greco-Roman religion may refer to: Ancient Greek religion Hellenistic religion Mystery religions, initiatory cults of the Greco-Roman world Interpretatio...

Greek mythology, the Golden Fleece (Ancient Greek: Χρυσόμαλλον δέρας, romanized: Khrysómallon déras, lit. 'Golden-haired pelt') is the fleece of the golden-woolled...

his masonic sources, who in discussing the "Egyptian mysteries" actually mean Greco-Roman mysteries operating in Egypt, and cites other outdated sources...

goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kingdom (c. 2686 – c. 2181 BCE)...

be formed. From Chaos every deity including the Demiurge is born. The Greco-Roman tradition of prima materia, notably including the 5th- and 6th-century...

In Greek mythology, Adonis (Ancient Greek: Ἄδωνις, romanized: Adōnis; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤃𐤍, romanized: Adón) was the mortal lover of the goddesses Aphrodite...

tombs. Ancestor worship Baptism for the dead Funeral Grave goods Greco-Roman mysteries Hungry ghost Prayer for the dead Purgatory Yayoi Shirai, "Ideal...

certain alloys of bronze, and especially brass alloys in the case of antique roman coins, the latter being of "similar appearance to modern brass" according...

Dionysus, in his philosophical Phaedo: I conceive that the founders of the mysteries had a real meaning and were not mere triflers when they intimated in a...

an important religious site throughout the Roman period. Hadrian visited, and Varro described the mysteries. The cult fades from history towards the end...

and Roman Antiquities; Walters, Henry Beauchamp (1899). Catalogue of the bronzes, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan, in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities...

that world's periodic renewal. The symbol persisted from Egyptian into Roman times, when it frequently appeared on magical talismans, sometimes in combination...