Many, but not all, of the deities worshiped in the mysteries were originally associated with fertility. As such, their associated myths often referred to the natural cycle as it waxes and wanes (for instance, Demeter) or to the dying and rising of a god (Attis, Adonis, Osirs). Some scholars thing that the mysteries used this feature of the myth to give symbolic expression of rising to immorality with the deity. However, not all scholars agree; some deities venerated in mystery religions did not die or rise; moreover, the exact use of the myth in the mysteries is often unclear, though some concept of immorality seems to be implied.
Continue reading DEFINITION OF THE DAY (MYSTERY RELEIGIONS PT 2 OF 2)DEFINITION OF THE DAY (MYSTERY RELEIGIONS PT 2 OF 2)
bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, christians, Church, curiosities, customs, death, devil, evil, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, OT, Paul, pray, prayer, praying, preach, preaching, prophet, Proverbs, race, rise, risen, satan, sin, sinned, sinner, study, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorizedadonis, attis, bacchanalia, baptism, blood, castration, caution, cult, cults, Cybele, cycle, definitions, deity, die, dionysisus, dying, festivals, generalization, God, immorality, kill, killed, killer, March, member, members, mithraeum, mithraism, mithras, Music, mystery relegions, myth, order, osirs, pantonmimes, processions, public, purification, rebirth, relationship, religions, scenes, structures, symbolic, symbolizes, Symbols, tauroblium, tauroctony, theatric, toughabarkley8