mystery cult वाक्य

I don't think even birth-death-rebirth mystery cults like that of Attis / Cybele, with eunuchized priests maintained that .-Nunh-huh 05 : 31, 15 January 2006 ( UTC)
The " Metamorphoses " ends with the ( once again human ) hero, Lucius, eager to be initiated into the mystery cult of Isis; he abstains from forbidden foods, bathes, and purifies himself.
Hephaestus was somehow connected with the archaic, pre-Greek Phrygian and Thracian mystery cult of the Kabeiroi, who were also called the " Hephaistoi ", " the Hephaestus-men ", in Lemnos.
Like the other mystery cults ( including the other pseudo-oriental ones ), the cult of Jupiter Dolichenus gained popularity in the Roman Empire as a complement of the open'public'religion of mainstream Roman society.
Mithraism was not an alternative to other pagan religions, but rather a particular way of practising pagan worship; and many Mithraic initiates can also be found worshipping in the civic religion, and as initiates of other mystery cults.

In contrast, the cult of Isis, like Christianity and some other mystery cults, was made up of people who joined voluntarily, out of their personal commitment to a deity that many of them regarded as superior to all others.
Paul came to present Jesus as a dying and rising saviour deity similar to those from the Hellenistic mystery cults, fused with the historical pedigree of Judaism, thus giving birth to a powerful new myth whose preaching gained him a large following.
In his " Christianity : An Ancient Egyptian Religion " ( 2005 ), Osman claims that Christianity did not originate in Judea but is the remnant of an Ancient Egyptian mystery cult that was suppressed and transformed by the Roman authorities.
It must have had significance to the cult myth ( a mystery cult's myth is that cult's " mystery " ) that would have been transmitted to devotees, but what that myth might have been is unknown.
Apparently, she was originally named Polyxena, as Plutarch mentions in his work " Moralia ", and changed her name to Myrtale prior to her marriage to Philip II of Macedon as part of her initiation into an unknown mystery cult.