| 11. | Mystery religions imported from the Near East ( Ptolemaic Egypt, restrict the Bacchanals in 186 BC.
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| 12. | The mystery religion of Mithraism was practiced in the Roman Empire between the 1st and 4th century.
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| 13. | Julian s religious beliefs were syncretic and he was an initiate of at least three mystery religions.
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| 14. | They formed new cults, renounced materialism and earthly power and practiced " mystery religions ."
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| 15. | Gnosticism is primarily defined in a Greco-Roman mystery religions, and Zoroastrianism ( especially Zurvanism ).
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| 16. | Kneeling also played a role in initiation ritual for mystery religion, which offered the promise of rebirth.
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| 17. | The significance of the veil is sometimes explained in terms of the initiation rites of the mystery religions.
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| 18. | Additional religious cults came with the oriental immigrants, who brought the eastern mystery religions to the Rh�ne valley.
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| 19. | The mystery religions, the secret societies were the norm, rather than the exception in the ancient pagan world.
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| 20. | His parents were mystery religions, which could only have arisen from the practice of his family's religion.
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