Rome was also the base of several mystery cults, such as Mithraism.
This followed the hierarchical patterns of the various mystery cults that were popular at the time in the Roman Empire.
These two gifts were intimately connected in Demeter's myths and mystery cults.
It was in Antioch that followers of a new mystery cult were first called Christians.
The mystery cults offered a niche for the preservation of archaic religious ritual, and there is reason to assume that they were very conservative.
Orpheus's voice and lyre-playing represented a medium of revelation or higher knowledge for the mystery cults.
I can't tell if you two are about to pull steel or found a mystery cult.
Instead there is a mystery cult, nameless and obscure, that will stop at nothing to stamp out that name from either public or private knowledge.
Beyond their graphic quality, these prints may have been linked to sacred rites or mystery cults.
John writes for the Greek Christians familiar with the mystery cults.