Events Tagged: "mysteries"

Eleusinian Mysteries established - secret rites of Demeter and Persephone, promise blessed afterlife, death penalty for revealing secrets

Orphic mysteries spread through Greece - followers of Orpheus seek purification, believe in reincarnation, refuse meat, carry secret gold tablets for afterlife

Christians compete with mysteries - both Mithraism and Christianity offer salvation, sacred meals, baptism, resurrection, fierce rivalry