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The Ancient Mysteries
Author | : Marvin W. Meyer |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1999-05-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081221692X |
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Zeus and the other gods of shining Olympus were in reality divine only by popular consent. Over the course of time Olympian luster diminished in favor of religious experiences more immediate to the concerns of people living in an increasingly cosmopolitan ancient world. These experiences were provided by the mysteries, religions that flourished particularly during the Hellenistic period and were secretly practiced by groups of adherents who decided, through personal choice, to be initiated into the profound realities of one deity or another. Unlike the official state religions, in which people were expected to make an outward show of allegiance to the local gods, the mysteries emphasized an inwardness and privacy of worship within a closed band of initiates. In this book, Marvin W. Meyer explores the sacrifices and prayers, the public celebrations and secret ceremonies, the theatrical performances and literary works, the gods and goddesses that were a part of the mystery religions of Greece in the seventh century B.C. to the Judaism and Christianity of the Roman world of the seventh century A.D.
The Seventy Great Mysteries of the Ancient World
Author | : Brian M. Fagan |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Civilization, Ancient |
ISBN | : 0500510504 |
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Describes various issues in mythology and prehistoric and ancient history, from the Garden of Eden to the effects of meteor impacts, including tombs, writing systems, and the fall of civilizations, and suggests explanations.
In Search of Ancient Mysteries
Author | : Alan Landsburg,Sally Landsburg |
Publsiher | : Corgi |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : UOM:39015058734859 |
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The evidence is overwhelming! Before human history was written a race of beings traveled to Earth across the voides of space. This book is the most explosive inquiry into man's beginnings since Darwin challenged the Bible!
Ancient Earth Mysteries
Author | : J. C. Vintner |
Publsiher | : AEM Publishing |
Total Pages | : 101 |
Release | : 2011-09-02 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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Beginner's Guide to Ancient Earth Mysteries: Is humanity the first creation of intelligent beings? Do similar human-type species exist throughout the cosmos? If so, have those species mastered technologies only to self-destruct in an unfortunate series of events? The Universe is unbelievably enormous, this is undisputed. It's extremely selfish to think we are the only existing intelligent life. Science and religion are on the verge of discovering the truth. Super ancient societies and their archaeological evidence uncovered to this day is a vault of stored information waiting to be unlocked. All we need to do is find the key. Help us uncover the truth by learning about Ancient Earth Mysteries.
Mysteries of the Ancient World
Author | : Charles E. Sellier |
Publsiher | : Dell |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Antiquities |
ISBN | : 0440218055 |
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How did the gigantic stones get to Stonehenge? What are huge, underwater stone walls doing off the coast of the Bahamas--in the place that psychic Edgar Cayce said Atlantis once existed? What are the ancient world's links to the "face" seen on Mars? Join the author in this baffling, intriguing, controversial journey that gets to the heart of each of these mysteries.
New England s Ancient Mysteries
Author | : Robert Ellis Cahill |
Publsiher | : Old Saltbox |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0962616249 |
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"Called the ""Reader's Digest of New England Archaeology,"" by experts in the field, this book covers all finds and sits by amateur and professional ancient artifact hunters since America was first settled. Hundreds of messages were cut into stone by unknown ancient settlers. Carved faces, well-made homes of rock, Celtic ritual sites, dolmens, and other ancient remnants are scattered throughout the New England states, making it quite apparent that visitors from other lands lived here hundreds of years before Columbus discovered America. Ancient coins, weapons, lamps, containers and art objects have been uncovered as well -- all well documented and described, with photos in this fascinating book."
Ancient Mystery Cults
Author | : Walter Burkert |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1989-10-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780674253155 |
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The foremost historian of Greek religion provides the first comprehensive, comparative study of a little-known aspect of ancient religious beliefs and practices. Secret mystery cults flourished within the larger culture of the public religion of Greece and Rome for roughly a thousand years. This book is neither a history nor a survey but a comparative phenomenology, concentrating on five major cults. In defining the mysteries and describing their rituals, membership, organization, and dissemination, Walter Burkert displays the remarkable erudition we have come to expect of him; he also shows great sensitivity and sympathy in interpreting the experiences and motivations of the devotees.
Initiation into the Mysteries of the Ancient World
Author | : Jan N. Bremmer |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2014-07-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9783110376999 |
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The ancient Mysteries have long attracted the interest of scholars, an interest that goes back at least to the time of the Reformation. After a period of interest around the turn of the twentieth century, recent decades have seen an important study of Walter Burkert (1987). Yet his thematic approach makes it hard to see how the actual initiation into the Mysteries took place. To do precisely that is the aim of this book. It gives a ‘thick description’ of the major Mysteries, not only of the famous Eleusinian Mysteries, but also those located at the interface of Greece and Anatolia: the Mysteries of Samothrace, Imbros and Lemnos as well as those of the Corybants. It then proceeds to look at the Orphic-Bacchic Mysteries, which have become increasingly better understood due to the many discoveries of new texts in the recent times. Having looked at classical Greece we move on to the Roman Empire, where we study not only the lesser Mysteries, which we know especially from Pausanias, but also the new ones of Isis and Mithras. We conclude our book with a discussion of the possible influence of the Mysteries on emerging Christianity. Its detailed references and up-to-date bibliography will make this book indispensable for any scholar interested in the Mysteries and ancient religion, but also for those scholars who work on initiation or esoteric rituals, which were often inspired by the ancient Mysteries.