However, the developed form of the Orpheus myth was entwined with the Orphic mystery cults and, later in Rome, with the development of Mithraism and the cult of Sol Invictus.
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While some traditions, such as Mystery cults, did uphold certain texts as canonic within their own cult praxis, such texts were respected but not necessarily accepted as canonic outside their circle.
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This astrology-centric pseudo-Oriental trappings ( known as " perserie " in scholarship ) in order to distinguish itself from both traditional Roman religion and from the other mystery cults.
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Classicist Johan C . Thom notes that opinions regarding the context of the text differ, for example, Mithraism or another mystery cult, ancient magic, the Egyptian cult regarding the dead, or theurgy.
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However, feasts in which worshippers ate the food that had been sacrificed to a deity were a nearly universal practice in Mediterranean religions and do not prove a direct link between Christianity and the mystery cults.
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They were worshiped in a mystery cult closely associated with that of Hephaestus, centered in the north Aegean islands of Lemnos and possibly Samothrace at the Samothrace temple complex and at Hellenistic period, eventually initiating Romans.
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Most modern scholarship agrees that Dionysiac or Bacchic mystery cults had been practiced in Roman Italy for several decades before 186, and were considered acceptable by Roman authorities until this abrupt " discovery " and rapid suppression.
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Unlike the other pseudo-oriental mystery cults, the worship of Jupiter Dolichenus was very fixed on its'Doliche'/'Syrian'exoticism and identity, which contributed to the cult's demise.
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Unusually amongst Roman mystery cults, the mysteries of Mithras had no'public'face; worship of Mithras was confined to initiates, and they could only undertake such worship in the secrecy of the Mithraeum.
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With no formal degree, Jesi published, beginning at the age of 15, a series of studies on the world of ancient Greece and Egypt, including on the topic of mythological themes and mystery cults.
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