PDF-(BOOS)-The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World

In the centuries following the conquests of Alexander the Great the dramatic unification of the Mediterranean world created exceptionally fertile soil for the growth of new religions Christianity for example was one of the innovative religious movements that arose during this time However Christianity had many competitors and one of the most remarkable of these was the ancient Roman mystery religion of Mithraism Like the other mystery cults of antiquity Mithraism kept its beliefs strictly secret revealing them only to initiates As a result the cults teachings were never written down However the Mithraists filled their temples with an enigmatic iconography an abundance of which has been unearthed by archaeologists Until now all attempts to decipher this iconography have proven fruitless Most experts have been content with a vague hypothesis that the iconography somehow derived from ancient Iranian religion In this groundbreaking work David Ulansey offers a radically different theory He argues that Mithraic iconography was actually an astronomical code and that the cult began as a religious response to a startling scientific discovery As his investigation proceeds Ulansey penetrates step by step the mysteries concealed in Mithraic iconography until finally he is able to reveal the central secret of the cult a secret consisting of an ancient vision of the ultimate nature of the universe Brimming with the excitement of discoveryand reading like an intellectual detective storyUlanseys compelling book will intrigue scholars and general readers alike. . 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No list of the greatest structures of the ancient world would be complete without a mention of the famous Pyramids in Egypt. The Pyramid of . Djoser. , the oldest of the Pyramids, is estimated to have been built around the year 2630 B.C. Still today, experts have not been able to come up with a solid conclusion to explain how the ancient Egyptians built these perfectly aligned buildings using nothing but physical strength. It is presumed that as many as 100,000 slaves worked over the years to build these immense, mysterious tombs, which are still considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World.. Sex and Salvation explores the growth and development of virginity in the cultural contexts of the ancient church. An examination of Greek, Roman, and Jewish literature, which speaks to the issues of virginity, reveals that the Christian understanding of life-long virginity was a foreign concept to the peoples and cultures of the ancient Mediterranean world. 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If you read one book on human origins, this should be it\' Ian Morris, author of Why the West Rules - For Now 50,000 years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the Neanderthals, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonesis and the Denisovans. At the forefront of the latter\'s ground-breaking discovery was Oxford Professor Tom Higham.In The World Before Us, he explains the scientific and technological advancements - in radiocarbon dating and ancient DNA, for example - that allowed each of these discoveries to be made, enabling us to be more accurate in our predictions about not just how long ago these other humans lived, but how they lived, interacted and live on in our genes today. 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Most of the stories that comprise the body of tales we know as Greek Mythology, especially the oldest ones, contain important insights into how our cultural ancestors explained the world in which they lived.