...was an essential preparatory entheogen for participants in the Eleusinian mysteries, which offered hope in the afterlife for initiates. (Kerenyi 1967).
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::''Behind the veil of all the hieratic and mystical allegories of ancient doctrines, behind the darkness and strange ordeals of all initiations, unde
...d a sequel, ''La Clef des Grands Mystères'' (''The Key to the Great Mysteries''). Further magical works by Lévi include ''Fables et Symboles'' (''Stori
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'''Melinoe''' (Μελινοε) was the ancient Greek goddess of ghosts, and propitiation-offerings made to the deceased.
...nd ''noe'', mind). Melinoe seems to have only been worshiped in the Orphic Mysteries.
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...nifestation of earth energy in this place. However in a later book "Modern Mysteries of the World" 1989 they retracted this and stated that they believed that t
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* Hawkes, David, tr. 1985. ''The Songs of the South: An Anthology of Ancient Chinese Poems by Qu Yuan and Other Poets''. Penguin.
* Smith, Thomas E. 2008. ''Dongming ji 洞冥記 Records of Penetration into the Mysteries'', in ''The Encyclopedia of Taoism'', ed. Fabrizio Pregadio, Routledge, 367
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...all strangers. Apis was the most popular of the three great bull cults of ancient Egypt (the others being the bulls Mnevis and Buchis.) Unlike the cults of m
...ndation made of wooden planks. Bulls' horns embellish some of the tombs of ancient pharaohs, and the Apis bull was often depicted on private coffins as a powe
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...d staff, as in ancient Crete - and they were worshiped as guardians of her mysteries of birth and regeneration.
...a belt, corsetting it and preventing it from flying apart in splinters. In ancient Egypt, the snake biting its tail symbolised the sea as the eternal ring whi
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Ancient mythologists placed Abraxas among the Egyptian gods. Abraxas was also the P
...phantom sent to earth by him. They believed that his name contained great mysteries, as it was composed of the seven Greek letters that formed the number 365,
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...the dead, ''[[Sheol]]'', also literally meant "unseen") refers to both the ancient [[Greek Underworld]] and the God of the Dead. The word originally referred
...l memory, and the pool of Mnemosyne ("memory"), where the initiates of the Mysteries drank instead. In the forecourt of the palace of Hades and Persephone sit t
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...such as murder, accidental death, or suicide — sometimes in the recent or ancient past. Amongst many cultures and religions it is believed that the essence o
* The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) by Ann Radcliffe
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The tomte was in ancient times believed to be the "soul" of the first inhabitor of the farm. He who
...where the tomte is alone awake in the cold Christmas night, pondering the mysteries of life and death. This poem featured the first painting by Jenny Nyström
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...gs, include Şêx Adî, his companion Şêx Hasan and a group known as the Four Mysteries: Shamsadin, Fakhradin, Sajadin and Naserdin.
...s if they happen to be hit by the discarded liquid. These may also reflect ancient Iranian preoccupations, as apparently do taboos concerning bodily waste, ha
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'''Anubis''' is the Greek name for the ancient [[god]] in [[:Category:Egyptian mythology|Egyptian mythology]] whose hierog
Prayers to Anubis have been found carved on the most ancient tombs in Egypt; indeed, the ''Unas'' text (line 70) associates him with the
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...task, Hercules went to [[Eleusis]] to be initiated into the '''Eleusinian Mysteries''' so that he could learn how to enter and exit the underworld alive, and i
*Ancient Greeks and Romans were said to place a coin and a small cake in the hands o
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...hus''', possibly an epithet of Dionysus, is associated with the[Eleusinian Mysteries; in Eleusis, he is known as a son of Zeus and Demeter.
...y art in general and the art of tragedy in particular to ancient Dionysian mysteries. His views were expressed in the treatises ''The Hellenic Religion of the S
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The Egyptian sphinx is an ancient iconic mythical creature usually comprised of a recumbent lion — anim
The Egyptian androsphinx is a symbol of abundance, power, wisdom, mysteries, riddles, truth, unity, and secrets. Sometimes a pair of sphinx was picture
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...on| year=1992| pages= 8}}</ref> Most often the term refers specifically to ancient tales from very old cultures, such as Greek mythology or [[:Category:Roman
...resentation of images in the form of stories, which in themselves are more ancient than stories, not yet submitted to this kind of distinction."<ref>{{cite bo
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According to what can be reconstructed of the beliefs of the ancient Celts, the new year began around November 1 or on a New Moon near that date
...ver have school on Halloween and are therefore free to celebrate it in the ancient and time-honoured fashion.
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..., [[spiritualism]], and art. Alchemy has been practiced in Mesopotamia, [[Ancient Egypt]], Persia, India, and China, in Classical Greece and Rome, in the Isl
...y was one of the main precursors of modern [[science]]s, and we owe to the ancient alchemists the discovery of many substances and processes that are the main
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One theory asserts that the reported big cats are what the Ancient Greeks, in particular the Syrian Neoplatonist Iamblichus (died AD 326), def
* Moiser, Chris Big Cat Mysteries of Somerset Bossiney Books 2005
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