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Mystery Religions. Demeter. Great Goddess (?)-- life-creating renewal of plant and animal life. Eleusinian Mysteries ( 1500 BCE- 4 th Century CE). Eleusinian Mysteries. Three times blessed are those mortals who behold those rites [at Eleusis] before going down - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Mystery Religions
Demeter
Great Goddess (?)-- life-creating renewal of plant and animal life
Eleusinian Mysteries ( 1500 BCE- 4th Century CE)
Eleusinian Mysteries
• Three times blessed are those mortals who behold those rites [at Eleusis]
before going down
to the house of Hades.
They alone have true life there; to the rest, everything is misery. (Sophocles)
• mystai
Temple of Isis ( 1764-65)
Isis, Nile River
• Seth
• Osiris
• Horus
Isis, Osiris, Nile River
• Isis (sistrum, situla, ankh)
• sistrum
• Numerius Popidius Ampliatus son of Numerius paid for the temple of Isis to be rebuilt…..To repay his generosity the town council accepted him into their order free of charge, although he was only six years old.
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• F=Purgatorium
• G=Assembly room
• H=Teaching room
• I= Living quarters
• A= Tuscan Portico
Tuscan Order
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s
Harpocrates
Anubis
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s
Isis and Io
Isis cult statue?
Norbanus ( one of two)
CIL X 814=ILS 5198
• ( Portrait of Giaus Norbanus Sorex, actor of second parts; the presidents of the Fortunate Augustan Suburban County district ( set this up).Space given by decree of the decurions.
Herculaneum
• Sunrise/
mid-afternoon
Dionysus/Bacchus
• Kantharos
• thyrsus
Story of Dionysos
• Dionysus/Bacchus
• Semele
• Ariadne (Theseus)
****Bacchantes****
• Dionysus leads his thiasos-- Satyrs, Sileni and Bacchae
Satyr/Silenus
Maenads (Bacchae)
Villa of the Mysteries
Megalographia
Pedimental sculpture ( Dionysos and Ariadne?)
Foreign Cults –Sabazius, Lakshmi
• II.1.12 I,8.17.5
CIL IV 8417
Whoever is in love, let him come; I wish to break the ribs of Venus
With sticks and maim the goddess’s loins;
If she can perforate my tender heart,
Why can I not break her head with a stick?
Judaism
• CIL IV 8010= CIJ 562
Hebrew inscription –Sold by Kar […], Jesus, Shadani (ham/) son (?) of Lenananth , to Vergaz… what is beneath the baths.
CIL IV 6990
Felix slave of Judaicus.
Old Testament Reference
• IX.i.26, Street of Abundance
• SODOM[A] GOMORA
Judaism
• Vespasian and Titus ( destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem in 70 CE)
Solomon (?)
Other evidence
• Kosher garum
• Also names :Martha, Maria
Christianity ( House of the Bicentenary)
• Inscription with word Christian (House of
the Christian inscription
(VII.11.11)
New Testament ref. to Puteoli Christians
CIL IV 8623 ( Pater Noster?)