Posted on 01/13/2018 2:05:58 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
It is believed that soldiers and merchants gathered in these secret temples drinking, feasting and performing rituals that may have involved simulating death and rebirth, and even some nakedness...
...They were very effective at keeping their knowledge a secret, so we really don't know a lot about what went on in the Mithraeum ...
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
So it’s not that different to D.C.?
So it’s not that different to D.C.?
“The more things change, the more they stay the same,”
Apparently, the old French guys knew?
Somehow it always involves getting naked.
below ground only because it has been covered up by 1,700 - 2,000 years of soil accumulation. and now it is under a building built over it. H’mmmm, beginning of the Masons? (just joking on Masons.)
Kinda like frat parties
H’mmmm, beginning of the Masons?
Is that group related to the’Stonecutters’?
They have a lot of pull.
Somehow it always involves getting naked.
Not so much in Northern Illinois, this time of year.
But they are all secret societies, how do we know?
Can they all be infested with blabbermouth anti Trump types?
With or without beer?
LOL! Nope!
“The ancient Roman cult was founded in the 1920s from the remnants of other cults.”
Just joking about the Masons because some folks want to link them to all things ‘secret society.’
This is CNN, not the Cult Chanel.
Strictly for amusement and humor.
If you want ‘real history’, you gotta get it from the gutter mixed with other basic truths and legends.
Homer notices that his colleagues Lenny and Carl are enjoying inexplicable privileges at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. He discovers they are part of an ancient secret society known as the Stonecutters. To join, one must either be the son of a Stonecutter or save the life of a Stonecutter. While extolling the Stonecutters at the dinner table, Homer discovers that his father is a member and is admitted...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_the_Great
Ah, a “play” on Socrates being a stone cutter in ancient Athens. The only Homer I’m familiar with is the ancient Greek author of the Odyssey and the Iliad.
Spelled the same but not as literate as the blind Homer of old.
Unfortunately, the ones we want to get nekkid are the ones that don’t, and the ones that never should be, do.
Mithras was an offshoot (protestant form) of Zoroastrianism. It was once a rival of Christianity> Their symbol was an “X” BRANDED ON THE FOREHEAD! They were forbidden to tell a lie! Never work today.
Oh, I get it. But England used to be renowned for having some truly bizarre, hilarious, and at times murderous cults in modern times. Here is one example of the wackiness that prevailed, a funny if a bit NSFW tale:
https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/2810/
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