Mithraic Mysteries

The four colors representing Nelly Dean are red, blue, grey, and yellow. Red is on the outermost layer because Nelly Dean comes off as a very strong and passionate person. She has a big heart for the kids who she has been around like Cathy Linton. Going toward the center, Nelly is represented by blue and grey. Blue shows Nelly Dean's cleanliness and security. Even though Nelly can be an instigator, her intentions are very pure and clean. She also tries to give Cathy a lot of stability as well as…

Sea Shanties are a class of work songs that date back as far as the 16th century in Scotland. However, they truly flourished over a span of fifty years in the mid 1800’s after being popularized by the Atlantic merchant trade. Sailors used chants for synchronizing shipboard labor. They are typically flexible in lyric form that would allow for easy improvisation. This would allow the shantyman (leader/head) to lengthen or shorten the call and response to match the work. Shantyman (solo):…

known as the original “Girl Sleuth”, is the lead detective of the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories. A young girl of 16 or 18 years of age (her age varies between stories), she was created by publisher Edward Stratemeyer, famously known for his The Hardy Boys detective series, and written by a variety of ghostwriters under the penname Carolyn Keene (Nancy Drew 2015). Nancy Drew is a female, amateur detective who stumbles upon mysteries in the fictional town of River Heights where she lives with her…

The mystery cult is now a topic of debate amongst scholars, due to the mysterious nature of the cults appearance across such an incredible distance so suddenly throughout the early empire. This essay will discuss this issue of sudden growth across several distant regions during such a short a short period of time, taking into account geographical locations of Mithraea and Mithraic finds that have been discovered scattered across the empire, as well as those who were initiated into the mystery…

It is called as a mystery cults or religion of mystery which presents mysteries that arises not explain. The reasons for this can be varied, from reasons of defense against retaliation to own community of majority groups, protection of personal interests, the experience of belonging to an exclusive society, or simply the inability to rationally explain that data related to religion. The mystery cults were religious movements, small groups of people gathered around a lit bringing a revolutionary…

The Mystery Cults and Christianity Through shared commonalities, the mystery cults helped to anchor a place for Christianity in the Ancient Greek and Roman world. These practices paved the way for early Christianity was to be viewed in the context of a mystery cult. Only the “mystery cult” of Christianity dealt with one god instead of two or more. There were many mystery cults in ancient times, some that may be lost to us forever. The mystery cults that focused in this paper will be the…