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See the Stunning Frescoes of a Mysterious Dionysian Cult Discovered in Ancient Pompeii
“These were mystery cults, so what they did remains a mystery ... insights into what worship of Dionysus, also known as the ...
PBS4y
The Empire's Religions
And centuries after even the conversion of Constantine, we find endowments to liturgies, to mystery cults, to different Egyptian and Greco-Roman gods. Paganism continues on even after the ...
Archaeology4y
Saving the Villa of the Mysteries
(In contrast to recognized public religion and worship, in the Greco-Roman world the mystery cults required the worshipper to be initiated.) For more than two decades the house was known as the ...
Irish Sun29d
‘Exceptional’ Pompeii frescos of Greek booze god & mystery rituals from Jesus’s time unearthed from ancient volcanic ash
"EXCEPTIONAL" frescos of the Greek god of wine that reveal mystery cult rituals have been unearthed ... POMPEII was once a very prosperous ancient Roman city on the Gulf of Naples, in Italy's ...
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‘Exceptional’ Pompeii frescos of Greek booze god & mystery rituals from Jesus’s time unearthed from ancient volcanic ash
"EXCEPTIONAL" frescos of the Greek god of wine that reveal mystery cult rituals have been unearthed ... Vesuvius erupted and completely buried the Roman city under a thick carpet of ash, killing ...