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6 results for "Mithraic"

N_1_16 Credible Secret Societies

N_1_16 — Ancient Mystery Schools — Comparative Survey

The mystery schools (Greek: mysteria, from myein — "to close" or "to shut," referring to closed lips and closed eyes of initiates) constituted the esoteric religious tradition of the ancient Mediterranean world for over

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ZH_4_02 Credible Archaeoastronomy

ZH_4_02 — Precession in Ancient Culture: Hamlet's Mill Thesis

Hamlet's Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time (1969), by MIT historian of science Giorgio de Santillana and ethnologist Hertha von Dechend, is one of the most intellectually ambitious — and controversial — works

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C_3_04 Verified Global Traditions

C_3_04 — Seven-Level Cosmology / Seven Gates

The number seven appears as a cosmic organizing principle across virtually every ancient tradition on Earth. Sumerian texts describe seven gates in the underworld through which Inanna descends, stripping away one divine

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INTERDOC_30 — Initiation, Mystery Schools, and the Universal Pattern

[KEY FINDING] Arnold van Gennep (The Rites of Passage, 1909) identified the universal three-stage structure of initiation: separation (removal from ordinary life, stripping of previous identity), liminality (threshold st

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N_1_01 Verified Secret Societies

N_1_01 — Mystery Schools & Initiation Traditions

The ancient Mediterranean hosted at least six major "Mystery School" traditions, all sharing a core structure: graduated initiation, strict secrecy oaths, death-and-rebirth symbolism, and the promise of transformed consc

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N_1_05 Verified Secret Societies

N_1_05 — Mithraic Mysteries — The Roman Underground Cult

The Mysteries of Mithras constituted one of the most widespread and architecturally distinctive mystery religions of the Roman Empire, flourishing from roughly the 1st through the 4th centuries CE. Practiced exclusively

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