Another factor to look at in this era of early Christian religion is mystery religions. These practices were similar to cults. These mystery religions had rituals they performed before a person was adopted into the secret society. These religions are based on five principle ideals that make them considered mystery religions. They base their time cycles on the cycles of the seasons and they kept the secret on the story of the deity they worshiped and how to worship said deity. Also many of these deities either came back from the dead and lived again or defeated their greatest enemy in battle, these cults also did not have written doctrine of their belief and mainly focused on the emotions of their follower and these feelings help lead the to
