Encyclopedia - Ananke Mythology: Encyclopedia - Ananke Mythology
In Greek mythology, Ananke (Greek Ἀνάγκη) was the personification of destiny, unalterable necessity and fate. She was also the mot...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Orphic Mysteries, Orphica: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Orphic Mysteries, Orphica
Orphic Mysteries or Orphica (Ancient Greek). These followed, but differed greatly from, the mysteries of Bacchus.   The system o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Orphism, Orphic Mysteries: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Orphism, Orphic Mysteries
Orphism, Orphic Mysteries [from Greek orphikos]   Orphism originally taught of the Causeless Cause on which all speculation is im...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orpheus: Encyclopedia - Orpheus
In Greek legend, Orpheus was the chief representative of the arts of song and the lyre, and of great importance in the religious history ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tartarus: Encyclopedia - Tartarus
In Greek mythology, Tartarus, or Tartaros, is both a deity and a place in the underworld — even lower than Hades. In ancient orphic sou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Persephone: Encyclopedia - Persephone
In Greek mythology, Persephone (Greek Περσεφόνη, Classical Greek Persephónē, Modern Greek Persefóni) was the queen of the Und...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kabeiroi: Encyclopedia - Kabeiroi
The Kabeiroi (Cabiri) in Greek myth were a race of gods or god-like beings, closely connected with Hephaistos and with the Mother Goddess...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Essenes: Encyclopedia - Essenes
The Essenes (es'-eenz) were a religious sect of Judaism that flourished from the 2nd century BC to the 1st century AD in Qumran, a platea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pythagoreanism: Encyclopedia - Pythagoreanism
Pythagoreanism is a term used for the esoteric and metaphysical beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers, the Pythagoreans, who were ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Proclus: Encyclopedia - Proclus
Proclus Lycaeus (February 8, 412 – April 17, 485), surnamed "The Successor" or "diadochos" (Greek Πρόκλος ὁ Διάδοχος...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pythagoras: Encyclopedia - Pythagoras
Pythagoras (approximately 569 BCE – 475 BCE, Greek: Πυθαγόρας) was an Ionian mathematician and philosopher, founder of the my...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mithraism: Encyclopedia - Mithraism
Mithraism (in Persian: مهرپرستی) was an ancient mystery religion prominent from the 1st century BC to the 5th century AD. It was ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology
Greek mythology comprises the collected narratives of Greek gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines, originally created and spread within a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia - Dionysus
Dionysus or Dionysos (Ancient Greek: Διώνυσος or Διόνυσος; also known as Bacchus in both Greek and Roman mythology and as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reincarnation: Encyclopedia - Reincarnation
Reincarnation, as a doctrine or mystical belief, holds the notion that one's 'Spirit' ('Soul' depending on interpretation), 'Higher or Tr...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Zagreus, Zagreus-dionysos: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Zagreus, Zagreus-dionysos
Zagreus, Zagreus-Dionysos (Greek) Dionysos was an earlier name for Bacchus. The mythos concerning Zagreus belongs to the cycle of teac...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Semele, Semele-thyone: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Semele, Semele-thyone
Semele, Semele-Thyone (Greek) In Greek mythology, daughter of Cadmus, founder of Thebes, and of Harmonia, a daughter of Ares and Aphro...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mysteries: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Mysteries
Mysteries, The [from Greek mysteria Mysteries from mystes one initiated into the Mysteries from mueo to initiate from muo to close the...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Demeter: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Demeter
Demeter (Greek) (possibly from Doric da earth + meter mother)   The Earth-Mother; one of the great Olympian deities, in popular m...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Orpheus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Orpheus
Orpheus (Greek) An early religious teacher and reformer in Greece about whom clustered so many legends that in course of time his hist...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hecate, Hekate: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hecate, Hekate
Hecate Hekate (Greek) This goddess, daughter of Perses and Asteria, was given power from Zeus in heaven, earth, and sea. She was a mys...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bacchus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Bacchus
Bacchus (Greek) Used by both Greeks and Romans, also called Dionysos by the Greeks, Liber by the Romans, Zagreus in the Orphic mysteri...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hebel De-germin, Habal De Garmin: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hebel De-germin, Habal De Garmin
Hecate Hekate (Greek) This goddess, daughter of Perses and Asteria, was given power from Zeus in heaven, earth, and sea. She was a mys...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dionysos: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Dionysos
Dionysos (Greek) (from dio from dis old form of Zeus + Nysa)   Also Dionysius. Zeus of Nysa, a mountain variously placed in Thrac...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vedas: Vedic Hindu Scriptures Dictionary On Vedas
Vedas Veda is a generic name for the most ancient Indian sacred literature, i.e. the Rg-veda, Yajur-veda, Sama-veda and Atharva-veda. ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Zeus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Zeus
Zeus (Greek) Chief of the manifested gods of the Greek pantheon, represented in poetic and mythologic story as throned in the heavens,...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Soma: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Soma
Soma (Sanskrit) In Hinduism, the moon astronomically; mystically, a sacred beverage of initiates, "made from a rare mountain plan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orpheus: Encyclopedia Ii - Orpheus - Orphic Poems And Rites
A large number of Greek religious poems in hexameter were attributed to Orpheus, as they were to similar miracle-man figures like Bakis, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Persephone: Encyclopedia Ii - Persephone - Overview
The figure of Persephone is a well-known one today. Her story has great emotional power: an innocent maiden; a mother's grief at the abdu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Persephone: Encyclopedia Ii - Persephone - Modern Scholarship On Persephone
Persephone - Persephone Before the Greeks?. Many modern scholars have argued that Persephone's cult was a continuation of Neolithic or ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysian Mysteries: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysian Mysteries - The Temple And Its Officers
The sacred loci of the Dionysian Mysteries have varied over time and place, just like the rites themselves. The earliest rites took place...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysian Mysteries: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysian Mysteries - The Mysteries Unveiled
Apart from this basic outline the Mysteries remain largely just that, a mystery, as very little knowledge of them has been passed down to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Essenes: Encyclopedia Ii - Essenes - Parallels And Influences
The Essenes are discussed in detail by Josephus and Philo. Many scholars believe that the community at Qumran that allegedly produced the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kabeiroi: Encyclopedia Ii - Kabeiroi - Myth
The Kabeiroi in myth bear many similarities to other fabulous races: the Telchines of Rhodes, the Cyclopes, Idaian Dactyls, Korybantes, K...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mithraism: Encyclopedia Ii - Mithraism - Mithraic Studies
The First International Congress of Mithraic Studies was held in 1971 at Manchester, England. Franz Cumont (1868 - 1947) was the main pro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Friedrich Hölderlin: Encyclopedia Ii - Friedrich Hölderlin - Work
The poetry of Hölderlin, widely recognized today as one of the highest points of German and Western literature, was quite forgotten very...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysian Mysteries: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysian Mysteries - The Emergence And Evolution Of The Dionysian Mysteries
The idea of a Mystery Religion was essentially of a series of initiations which benefited the individual or their society in some way. In...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Mythology - Did The Greeks Believe Their Myths?
"Our own myths we call reality" is one of the axioms with which Carl A.P. Ruck and Danny Staples commence The World of Classical Myth; to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Persephone: Encyclopedia Ii - Persephone - The Abduction Myth
In the Olympian pantheon, Persephone is given a father: according to Hesiod's Theogony, Persephone was the daughter produced by the union...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Mythology - Did The Greeks Believe Their Myths?
"Our own myths we call reality" is one of the axioms with which Carl A.P. Ruck and Danny Staples commence The World of Classical Myth; to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Parallels With Christianity
It is possible that Dionysian mythology would later find its way into Christianity. There are many parallels between the legends of Diony...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Parallels With Christianity
It is possible that Dionysian mythology would later find its way into Christianity. There are many parallels between Dionysus and Jesus; ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysian Mysteries: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysian Mysteries - Ritual Miscellanies
Dionysian Paraphernalia: The Kantharos, a drinking cup with large handles, originally the Rhyton, a drinking horn (from a bull), and late...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mithraism: Encyclopedia Ii - Mithraism - Parallels To Christianity
According to Martin A. Larson, in The Story of Christian Origins (1977), Mithraism and Christianity derived from the same sources, origin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mithraism: Encyclopedia Ii - Mithraism - Principles Of Mithraism
Romans encountered worship of the deity Mithras as part of Zoroastrianism in the eastern provinces of the empire, particularly in Asia Mi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Friedrich Hölderlin: Encyclopedia Ii - Friedrich Hölderlin - Life
Hölderlin was born in Lauffen am Neckar in the kingdom of Württemberg. He studied Theology at the Tübinger Stift (seminary of the Prot...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cowboy Bebop: Encyclopedia Ii - Cowboy Bebop - Plot
In the year 2071, the crew of the starship Bebop travel the solar system trying to apprehend bounties. In the slang of the era, "cowboys"...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Mythology - Nature And Sources Of Greek Mythology
The general issues in studying myths are discussed in the mythography article. While all cultures throughout the world have their own myt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Mythology - Theories Of Origin
In antiquity, authors like Herodotus speculated that the Greeks had borrowed their gods wholesale from the Egyptians. Later, Christian wr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mithraism: Encyclopedia Ii - Mithraism - Connections
There is much speculation that Christian beliefs were influenced by Mithraic belief. Ernest Renan, in The Origins of Christianity, promot...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Mythology - Nature And Sources Of Greek Mythology
The general issues in studying myths are discussed in the mythography article. While all cultures throughout the world have their own myt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Mythology - Theories Of Origin
In antiquity, historians such as Herodotus theorized that the Greek gods had been stolen directly from the Egyptians. Later on, Christian...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mithraism: Encyclopedia Ii - Mithraism - History Of Mithraism
Mithraism - Mithraism In Persia Iran. Mithraism is generally considered to be of Persian origins, specifically an outgrowth of Zoroastr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Mythology - An Overview
The scope of Greek mythology is enormous. It extends from the horrific crimes of the early gods and the bloody wars of Troy and Thebes, t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Mythology - An Overview
The span of stories and characters in Greek mythology is incredibly far-reaching. Events ranging from the atrocities of the early gods to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cowboy Bebop: Encyclopedia Ii - Cowboy Bebop - Characters
Cowboy Bebop - Spike Spiegel. A 27-year-old bounty hunter who was born on Mars. In appearance, Spike is tall and thin, but with muscula...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reincarnation: Encyclopedia Ii - Reincarnation - Reincarnation In Various Religions, Traditions And Philosophies
Reincarnation - Eastern religions and traditions. In India this doctrine was thoroughly established from ancient times. While metempsy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reincarnation: Encyclopedia Ii - Reincarnation - Reincarnation In Various Religions Traditions And Philosophies
Reincarnation - Eastern religions and traditions. In India this doctrine was thoroughly established from ancient times. While metempsy...   » Read the article

Article - Popular Pages Sitemap Iii - O
This is a sitemap for Popular Pages III - O . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word. ...   » Read the article