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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (MYSTERY RELEIGIONS PT 2 OF 2)

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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.

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (MYSTERY RELIGIONS PT 1 OF 2)

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Several different cults or societies characterized in part by elaborate initiation rituals and secret rites. Though attested in Greece before 600 B.C., the mystery religions flourished during the Hellenistic and Roman periods (after 333 B.C.) before dying out before A.D. 500. In particular the intermingling of religious concepts made possible by Alexander the Great’s far-flung conquests accelerated the spread of some cults and facilitated the development of

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (FERTILITY CULT PT1)

February 1, 2021bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, 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, Proverbs, stones, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorized1 Kings, 2 Kings, Anath, Ashtoroth, Asia, Baal, Baal-Hadad, bible definition, bible dictionary, children, Cybele, daughter, definition, definition of the day, definitions, deity, Deuteronomy, E1, earth, Egypt, Ezekiel, fertility cult, God, goddess, gods, greek, Hebrew, home, Hosea, Judges, livestock, male, millennium, mother, myth, osiris, priests, religions, sexual intercourse, sexual relations, Syria, Tammuz, Ugaritic, Zechariahabarkley8

General term for religions marked by rites that reenact a myth accounting for the orderly change of the seasons and the earth’s fruitfulness. Such myths often involve a great mother-goddess as a symbol of fertility and a male deity, usually her consort but sometimes a son, who like vegetation dies and returns to life again. In Mesopotamia the divine couple was Ishtar and Tammuz (who is mourned in Ezek 8:14); in Egypt, Isis and her sons Osiris: in Asia Minor, Cybele and Attis. In Syria the Ugaritic myths of the second millennium B.C. pictured Baal-Hadad, the storm god, as the dying and rising god. (A local manifestation of this god is mourned in Zech

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