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Cybele and Attis - Introduction to the Story of Cybele and Attis
attis · cybele · great mother · love stories · mystery cults. Cybele From Oskar Seyffert. Dictionary of Classical Antiquities ...
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/cgodsandgoddesses/a/aa110999Cybele.htm
Cybele and Attis - The Love Story of Cybele and Attis
attis · cybele · great mother · love stories · mystery cults. Cybele. Cybele. Clipart.com. Cybele and Attis is the story of the Phrygian great mother ...
http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/nemythology/a/cybeleattis.htm
Studies in Mithraism
Roman Mithraism was a mystery religion with sacrifice and initiation. Like other mystery cults, there is little recorded literary evidence. ...
http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/mithraism/a/aa120699a.htm
What Was Greek Religion?
While some practitioners of specific mystery cults may have looked to their religion as a way to attain the Afterlife, entrance to Paradise or Hell did not ...
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/religionmyth/f/032808Gkreligio.htm
Gallae were the transgendered priestesses of the Cult of Great Mother.
Gallae, about whom we know very little, were the transgendered priestesses of the mystery Cult of Great Mother. Galli and Gallae ...
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/gallae/Gallae.htm
Book Review - The Jesus Mysteries
In these cults, mystery was quite literally the name of the game. ... It was, in other words, a Jewish version of pagan mystery cults. ...
http://atheism.about.com/library/books/religion/bl_books_JesusMyst.htm
Si-wang-mu - the Mother Queen of the West
Sources: "An Ancient Chinese Mystery Cult" Homer H. Dubs The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 35, No. 4. (Oct., 1942), pp. 221-240. ...
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/china/g/Siwangmu.htm
Greek Goddesses - Learn About the Greek Goddesses
Demeter was a fertility and grain goddess who is mostly associated with her daughter Persephone and the Eleusinian mystery cult. ...
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/greekgodsoly/bb/GreekGoddesses.htm
Si-Wang-Mu
Source: "An Ancient Chinese Mystery Cult" Homer H. Dubs The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 35, No. 4. (Oct., 1942), pp. 221-240. God or Goddess of the Day ...
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/dailygod/blg051027.htm
Mithraism: Freemasonry and the ancient mysteries
There are similarities between our Fraternity and the old Mystery Cults, but most of them are of a superficial character, and have to do with externals of ...
http://altreligion.about.com/library/texts/bl_mithraismfreemasonry5.htm
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