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The main purpose of this paper is to provide a critical analysis of Luc Boltanski’s account of the multifaceted relationship between mysteries, conspiracies, and inquiries in modern societies. It is striking that, although this important aspect of Boltanski’s oeuvre has been commented on by several scholars, his principal contributions to this area of investigation have been largely overlooked and received hardly any serious attention by researchers in the humanities and social sciences. This paper is an attempt to fill this noticeable gap in the literature. Thus, rather than covering the entire breadth and depth of Boltanski’s writings, the paper will focus on the valuable insights his work offers into the relationship between mysteries, conspiracies, and inquiries. To this end, the analysis is divided into two parts. The first part comprises an overview of Boltanski’s central theoretical contributions to our understanding of mysteries, conspiracies, and inquiries. The second part offers some critical reflections on important issues arising from Boltanski’s examination of the relationship between mysteries, conspiracies, and inquiries – especially with regard to its limitations and shortcomings.

- by Simon Susen
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- Conspiracy Theories, Karl Popper, Power, World
- by Brent McVicar
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- History, Irish Studies, Irish History, Mysteries
- by David Stewart
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- Comics, Science Fiction, Detective Fiction, Westerns

A number of texts from the Qumran scrolls demonstrate the community's interest in heavenly ascent and in communion with angels. This article lays out a pattern observable in some of the poetic/liturgical texts (for example, the Hodayot and other noncanonical psalms) in which the leader of the community is taken up into the divine council of God to be taught the heavenly mysteries, is appointed a teacher of those mysteries, and is then commissioned to share the teachings with his followers. Upon learning the mysteries, the followers are enabled to likewise ascend to heaven to praise God with the angels. In some texts, the human worshippers appear to undergo a transfiguration so that they become like the heavenly beings. This article further illustrates how these elements can be found together in a liturgical text known as the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice ; their collective presence suggests that all were part of a ritual sequence. Finally, the article argues that these same el...

- by David Larsen
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- Art, Ritual, Dead Sea Scrolls (Religion), Qumranic Studies

In zes hoofdstukken en twee aanhangsels bespreekt Jan N. Bremmer inwijding in antieke mysteriën. In het eerste hoofdstuk en appendix 1 worden de Eleusinische Mysteriën besproken. Eleusis was een plaats in Attica, gelegen op ongeveer twintig kilometer ten noordwesten van Athene en deel uitmakend van de Atheense staat. Mythische overleveringen vertellen van oorlogen tussen Athene en Eleusis, die werden gevoerd ten tijde van koning Erechtheus en Theseus. Het heiligdom van Eleusis is een van de zeer zeldzame gewijde plaatsen, waarvan men met vrij grote zekerheid mag aannemen dat er reeds in de Myceense tijd erediensten werden gehouden. Niets bewijst echter dat in de Myceense tijd soortgelijke erediensten werden gehouden als in de Archaïsche en Klassieke tijd. Uit de documentatie die wij bezitten, blijkt dat de erediensten in Eleusis deel uitmaakten van de Atheense feestkalender. De vieringen van deze feesten waren zowel gebaseerd op het feit dat Eleusis deel uitmaakte van de Atheense staat, als op het feit dat deze plaats zich wezenlijk van Athene onderscheidde. De mysteriecultus van de graangodin Demeter ging uit van de gedachte dat een gelukzalig voortbestaan na de dood mogelijk was, althans voor ingewijden. Verder geven zij aan dat deze mysteriën zich richtten rond de mythe van Perséphoné, de dochter van Demeter (voorheen Korè), die eenderde deel van het jaar bij Hades in de onderwereld moest verblijven en tweederde deel op aarde. Haar oprijzen uit de onderwereld symboliseerde het ontkiemen van de korenhalm uit de stervende graankorrel. De cultus mogelijk dateert mogelijk uit het 2e millennium v.Chr. Zo als eerder opgemerkt vonden deze Eleusinische Mysteriën plaats in de maand Boèdromion. Het grote feest vond plaats in de herfst en het kleine feest (de terugkeer) in de lente. In de maand Boèdromion werden door Atheense jongelingen bepaalde 'heilige voorwerpen' (hiera) van Eleusis naar Athene gebracht. Nadat allerlei rituele handelingen waren verricht, trok daarna een processie naar Eleusis en bracht de heilige voorwerpen weer terug. Naast het beeld van de processie komen daarbij nog elementen als het baden in zee, offers van gewijde varkens waarvan het bloed als reinigingsmiddel werd gebruikt, vasten, fakkeldansen, het zingen van liederen en een geheime feestviering in de tempel van Demeter. Het doel van de mysteriën bij de inwijding van de aspirant-mysten was om hen met gewijde woorden inzicht en begrip te geven in de geheimen van de natuur en in de samenstelling van de kosmos. Een dramatische handeling waarin een priesteres de verdwijnende Korè voorstelde, maakte deel uit van de inwijding. Er werden klaagliederen voor Demeter en Perséphoné gezongen, en er werden heilige voorwerpen aan de in te wijden persoon getoond. Het aantal deelnemers was naar schatting tienduizend. De kleine mysteriën waren een voorbereiding op de grote en duurden drie dagen. Zij werden gevierd in Agrae, een kleine voorstad van Athene. Een bad in de rivier de Hissos en een reiniging met water maakten er deel van uit. Er waren na voldoende onderwijs door de mystagoog (de bewaarder van de geheimen) drie graden van inwijding. De eerste was

- by Mark Beumer
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- Religion, Ancient Egyptian Religion, History, Ancient History

Un barco de pasajeros que desaparece engullido por una densa niebla que nunca existió, y que reaparece a las pocas horas completamente calcinado.
La extraña muerte de un ejecutivo del banco más antiguo del mundo, que solo los magistrados e investigadores de la policía insisten en considerar un suicidio.
Toneladas de residuos radiactivos enterrados en simples zanjas, junto a la central nuclear que los produjo. Cargueros hundidos en el Mediterráneo, frente a las costas italianas, con las bodegas llenas de uranio, plutonio y toda clase de residuos tóxicos letales.
La historia de tres hombres que lo arriesgaron todo para combatir a Cosa Nostra, la mafia siciliana, la organización criminal más poderosa del mundo.
Una batalla aérea sobre el mar Tirreno dentro de una guerra no declarada, que terminó con la vida de decenas de inocentes...
ITALIA SINIESTRA analiza con todo lujo de detalles cinco de los misterios más inquietantes de la historia reciente de Italia. Este libro es para aquellos que desean saber la verdad, por dura y terrible que resulte. Sus cinco capítulos son capaces de provocar pesadillas, porque son casos reales.

- by Alberto Ausín Ciruelos
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- History, Terrorism, Sociology of Crime and Deviance, War Studies
- by Rita Steblin
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- Biography, Beethoven, Archival Research, Mysteries
- by Florjeta Hulaj
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- Agatha Christie, Suspense, Mysteries, Hercule Poirot

A word-by-word explanation of the translation of the so-called creation hymn of Rigveda. The translation is very different from traditional ones. As I demonstrate, the hymn has been completely misunderstood by previous translators. The... more

- by Kant Singh
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- Philology, Religion, Hinduism, Comparative Religion
- by Kant Singh
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- Philology, Languages, Religion, Hinduism

Terre fertile en paralittératures, familière des littératures de l’imaginaire, la Belgique semble paradoxalement peu représentée dans la veine utopique. Si en France le récit d’anticipation moderne se constitue en prolongement, souvent négatif, de l’utopie narrative d’Ancien Régime, la situation est plus difficile à déterminer pour la Belgique, où cette écriture n’a pas acquis de véritable visibilité auctoriale ou éditoriale et paraît loin de constituer un genre autonome. On reconnaît plus volontiers à la littérature belge d’expression française ses particularités, tôt développées, dans les domaines du fantastique et de la science-fiction. Il s’agit assurément d’esthétiques voisines, mais il ne faudrait pas les confondre. Roger Bozzetto a insisté pour considérer le fantastique et la fiction spéculative comme « deux genres spécifiques avec des origines, des généalogies et des visées différentes » , tandis que Darko Suvin a proposé des critères distinguant l’utopie de la science-fiction . Sous la désignation de « littérature utopique » peuvent se regrouper des œuvres qui ont en commun les caractéristiques de la fiction prospective ou conjecturale associées à un traitement rationnel, généralement centré sur des préoccupations sociétales. Une telle définition repose à la fois sur des traits narratifs (cadre spatio-temporel d’anticipation), figuratifs (représentations de la collectivité humaine) et logiques (lien de vraisemblance entre monde fictif représenté et référence au réel). Ce numéro de la revue Textyles proposera un premier état des lieux de cette production hybride, disparate et peu considérée. Il associera, pour ce faire, des études de cas à une réflexion d’ensemble.

- by Valérie Stiénon
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- Future Studies, Dystopian Literature, Popular Culture, Social Representations
- by zhenya gershman
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- Art History, Inner Alchemy, Alchemy, Magic

This discussion considers the Arthurian elements presented in De Excidio, Historia Brittonum and the Annales Cambriae and analyses to what extent these may be indicative of the religious and political motives of their authors, rather than simplistically accepted as early primary sources recording reliable ‘evidence’ for an historical Arthur. The discussion is conducted using a framework for examining the texts, their wider historical and literary contexts, the authors’ motivations and the texts’ usefulness as historical ‘evidence’. It concisely distills all the relevant arguments and compares and contrasts various viewpoints. Finally it carefully unpicks the primary sources and demonstrates a number of problems concerning dating, later interpolations, inconsistencies, lack of clarity due to brevity (e.g. Arthur or Ambrosius?) and sensibly concludes that neither Historia Brittonum nor the Annales Cambriae can be viewed as reliable historical evidence, and that that the case for an historical Arthur is ‘unproven’.

- by Carla Zappalà
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- History, Celtic Studies, Medieval History, Anglo-Saxon Studies

Ephesians 3 provides an overarching concluding theological perspective for the first two chapters in Ephesians on God’s mystery and purposes. Through it, one can understand that God relates to mankind covenantally comprising of both OT and NT in integration. It
enlarges one’s understanding of spiritual realities in the heavenlies and the significance of what Christ Jesus done on the cross. Finally, Paul’s prayer for empowerment for the church unveils practical steps to develop one’s spiritual strength and intimacy with God. In God’s economy, enlightenment and empowerment in the Holy Spirit are tightly intertwined and directs theology to life experience with God.

- by Joe Sim
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- Transformation, Enlightenment, Empowerment, Mysteries

Long ago Arthur Clark has written that Rtanj is not a mountain, but a pyramid that hides under it. An oldest creation of the human civilization. Fact is that Rtanj is full of mystics, that strange things happening there. Rtanj,as the largest pyramid in the world with its 1565m above sea level, is located in eastern Serbia. As the only three-sided pyramid in the world, it has the complex task of absorbing cosmic and the other energies, and their amplification in space around it. It is one giant orgone generator which provides conditions for life.

- by Dijana Zmija
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- Ancient History, Languages and Linguistics, Ancient Indo-European Languages, Energy

The goddess Ilmr, attested only in Icelandic sources, has been almost completely neglected by scholarship. This article offers a comprehensive review of the evidence and discusses the possible interpretations. It proposes that ecological conditions in Iceland could be a factor in why this name seems to become increasingly obscure following the settlement period.

- by Joseph S . Hopkins
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- Mythology And Folklore, Folklore, Mythology, Historical Linguistics

"The wound is the place where the light enters you." 1 -Rumi "…The movement to make fear the problem is also dangerous. What is needed is courage to resist the oppressive causes for unnecessary suffering 2 , and fearlessness in actions [on] behalf of children at risk [,] and we can only do this by teaching courage and fearlessness to act according to our courageous choices without hesitation." (Four Arrows 2018)

- by Luke Barnesmoore
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- Critical Theory, Philology, Social Theory, Number Theory

The sacrifice of the sacred bull/calf deep in the underground cave, underlines the dualistic nature of the Mitraic Cult. The sacred bull was in its true nature a fetishist manifestation - phallus, of a multitude-form creator solar deity, a symbol of the sky and heavens, which through this ritual sacrifice ejaculates its seeds (blood) of life. While the underground cave , where Mitra was born from a stone, symbolized the interior (uterus) of the mother earth, which is about to be fertilized by the blood/seed of the celestial bull deep inside her. The death was the symbolic rebirth in the same time, as the sexual culmination is often compared with the “small death.”
This symbolic sexual “penetration” of the celestial bull/phallus deep into the underground womb of the mother earth, can be deduced also from the unmistakably Phallus-like shape of the Mitraeums, the cave-like shrines of Mitra, where at the end of each the altar represented the ‘glans’ of these penis-shaped structures, and where the “celestial sperm” was spilled in the form of the bull’s blood. Moreover, in the famous Ostia’ Mitraeum in Italy, where was performed the symbolic “ejaculation” of the sacrificial seed (i.e. bull’s blood and most probably the real ejaculation of the adepts and Paters, which was mixed with the “celestial seed” of the slain bull), there’s a very intuitive and proper inscription in Latin: “FELICISSIMUS EXVOTO” - ‘a maximum felicity from a vow’, with an urn-vessel (a mosaic image on the floor) for the ejection of the spilled blood/semen.
Mitraism was actually the most Chauvinistic and primitive predecessor of the 10th century dualistic movements, Bogomilism/Catharism and later Protestantism...

- by Basil Chulev
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- Religion, Mythology And Folklore, History, Ancient History

Bibliographic bulletin of secondary sources on popular genres: literature and film: science fiction and Fantasy, fantastic literature, horror, mysteries, spy fiction, etc.
Bulletin bibliographique des études sur les genres populaires.

- by Norbert Spehner
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- Comics, Science Fiction, Westerns, Gothic
- by Genevieve Pigeon
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- History, Sociology of Religion, Religion and Politics, Arthurian Studies

I am still on the first stretch of this nomadic exploration, but I think I can begin to answer the question that is guiding this exploration—'how can the Natural-Indigenous Worldview support our understandings of the potential for an anarchist society (i.e. for social order without hierarchical domination)?' The key of Natural-Indigenous Worldview that opens the lock of an anarchist society, of a society without hierarchical domination, comes in the Natural-Indigenous Worldview's spiritual ecology. When we develop the four R's (responsibility, reciprocity, respect, relationships [Young 2015]) through relating to the world in a manner that is facilitated by the spiritual ecology that rises from the Natural-Indigenous Worldview and thus ascribes spirit to all things without regard for the Colonial Modernist Worldview's distinction between 'animate' and 'inanimate', we come to see the world as a single, living, conscious being. The illusion of a discrete distinction between self and other breaks down and we come to see the self (and other selves) as strands in the unified, conscious web of creation. We come to care for all of creation as we would care for our children, for our partners, for our parents and for our self. Transcending the illusion of discrete individuality we develop a lovingly reciprocal, responsible, respectful and relational orientation to the world that begets virtuous thought, feeling, behavior and being without recourse to hierarchical authority (to punishment and fear of punishment). Engaging with the world through the spiritual ecology that rises from the Natural-Indigenous Worldview allows the sprouts of human nature to grow to fruition without recourse to hierarchical domination (i.e. without recourse to attempts to 'help sprouts grow' by pulling on them and the death of the sprouts of human nature portended by such hierarchical folly [Meng Zi 2016, 2A2]).

This paper aims to critically analyse the testimonies concerning Athenian impiety trials of the classical period. First, it reaffirms the arguments that some of them must have been an invention of Hellenistic and later authors. Second, it presents a likely political background behind the historical cases. Third, it discusses a number of legal issues, along with new arguments concerning the procedures employed. Finally, it examines some less well-known material from the fourth century BCE. Overall, it seeks to provide a possibly coherent and comprehensive framework of Athenian impiety trials based on their shared characteristics.

- by Jakub Filonik
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- Ancient History, Greek History, Greek Comedy, Hellenistic Literature

Marginalia is a bibliographic bulletin of secondary sources on popular literature and film: science fiction, fantasy, fantastic, gothic, horror, westerns, war stories, comics, mysteries, spy fiction, etc.

- by Norbert Spehner
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- Comics, Science Fiction, Westerns, Gothic
- by Kant Singh
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- Philology, Religion, Hinduism, Comparative Religion

Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/30032222 JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.

- by Olga Levaniouk
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- Dionysos, Mysteries, Dionysos Cult

If you fail to act now, history will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people." (King 1959) "Future planners assume that today's human behavior is normative, explaining it as adaptive to current conditions and part of a line of progress from prior Western or Euro-centric existence. There is a lack of awareness of how "worldview" has influenced the state of affairs in the world today." (Four Arrows and Narvaez 2016, p. 2) have on one's descendants. Interconnectedness fosters harmony by promoting responsibility and reciprocity, and harmony is considered the most powerful energy in the universe." (Methot 2012) "In Indigenous sciences, the world is often understood in terms of flows of energies (and sometimes entities) across a permeable boundary between manifest and unmanifest realities. Working relationships with forces deemed "superstitious" or "irrational" in modern science are significant aspects of social processes and healing practices. Maintaining these worldviews and practices is an uphill battle against the hegemony of modern scientific thought and the legacy of missionaries and educators who tried so hard to dismantle Indigenous knowledge systems. Even among scientists today, those who try to work outside the mechanistic paradigm in ways that approach Indigenous science are denounced as crackpots." (Herman 2008, p. 75) Returning to our discussion of , accepting that being 'realistic' means accepting the status quo is just fine if accepting the status quo is tenable for you in your seat of privilege, but it is not tenable if accepting the status quo means accepting the suffering and death of your homeland, nonhuman kin, family, friends, communities, etc. By not telling students how things fit together in the political, social, economic, etc. systems of Colonial Modernity or how we should think and feel about the oppressive ways that things fit together in colonial modernity teachers simply allow the exploitative, dominant culture of Colonial Modernity and its many and varied mythological rationalizations for oppression (which have been inscribed upon all those people who are socialized within Colonial Modernity) to go unproblematized (which is to say to retain their 'commonsensical', banal invisibility). By approaching education in a non-didactic manner authors like Cook implicitly support the hegemonic status quo and the many and varied forms of oppression therein. Obviously students will retain their ability to accept or reject didactic narrations, but the key is that didactic narrations which counter the dominant culture serve to problematize the banal invisibility of the dominant culture and its associated myths, ideas, logics, ontological assumptions, etc. (i.e. Worldview) that produce and legitimate the oppressive, hierarchical relations between things that typify Colonial Modernity.

- by Luke Barnesmoore
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- Critical Theory, Discourse Analysis, Philology, History
- by Zefa Nandra
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- Mysteries

Modernity and a True Return to Nature 0. Point of Departure Question How are human-nature relations and the attainment of virtue through human-nature relations understood in the classical urban theory of Geddes and Mumford? How is... more

- by Luke Barnesmoore
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- Critical Theory, Philology, Modern History, Social Theory
- by David Vanderper
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- History, Ancient History, Egyptology, Egyptian Archaeology

Generated by Don Hoffmann The reader should be able to understand most of the repeated VMS words if she/he uses the information shown. The information given also works for most of the single occurrence VMS words. Additional codes, mostly Group I codes, may be required for some. My proposed solution is of the form of cryptoanalytic concept enumerated by Mary E. D'Imperio in The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma on page 29 as: E. The Nature of the Substitution. E.7 Whole words or concepts are represented by single Voynich symbols or by mixed-length Voynich strings (as in shorthand.) My proposed solution's deconstruction ideas are a derivative of Professor Jorge Stolfi's prefix/midfix/suffix or crust/mantle/core ideas, although two of the-fixes have been further broken down into smaller component parts. These-fixes and sub-parts correspond with the six groups of codes shown and enumerated in the paper. My lists of Voynich Manuscript words found two or more times in the text or labels were gleaned from lists generated by Professor Stolfi. .

- by Don Hoffmann
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- Cryptography, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Medieval Manuscripts, Puzzles
- by Santiago Montero
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- Roman Cult of Mithras, Mysteries, Haruspicy. aruspex

The last day of the year 406, Sueves, Vandals and Alans crossed the Rhin. On this paper I reassess the traditional historiographical view on this issue and I offer an alternative view of the sources that described this penetration, placing particular emphasis on the analysis of the contemporary rupture of the maritime frontier on North Western Roman.

- by David Alvarez Jimenez
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- History, Roman History, Arthurian Studies, History of Piracy

By focusing on Eliade’s early life and writings (1921–1936), and specifically on his work on Yoga, I address in this paper a question that is frequently asked about the problematic relation between personal belief and scholarship in fields such as the history of religions. Eliade’s interest in Yoga showcases his own personal spiritual quest, of course. But it is also informed by his earlier readings of, and reflections on, two polar aspects of the religious experience: the magical and the mystical. For Eliade, these two categories provide not only a key to unlocking the conceptual and pragmatic dimensions of Yoga, but also the impetus for charting a systematic theory of religion. The last major expression of these early ideas can be seen in Yoga: Essai sur les origines de la mystique indienne (1936). Eliade’s thoughts on Yoga and religion then took different paths, reaching their full expression in works published in Paris after 1945. In his later books on Yoga – Techniques du Yoga (1948), Le Yoga: Immortalité et liberté (1954) – the twofold schema of the magical and the mystical no longer plays a key hermeneutical role. Nonetheless, understanding this early phase of his work is crucial if we are to provide a comprehensive account of the development of his thought on Yoga. This early phase in his scholarly career and experiential transformation, marked by his trip to India, is also very important in terms of understanding the further developments of his ideas on history of religions, as well as to evince the ground on which Eliade built his own – never confessed – private religious belief.

- by Liviu Bordas
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- Religion, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism

NORBERT SPEHNER 565, rue de Provence, Longueuil, J4H 3R3 (Québec/Canada) nspehner@sympatico.ca généralités Rappel : la rubrique intitulée « Généralités » présente des ouvrages dans lesquels on mélange les genres, les inclassables, les études sur le roman et le film d'aventures, l'humour et le comique, la culture populaire en général, ainsi que certaines « curiosités » éditoriales...

- by Norbert Spehner
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- Comics, Science Fiction, Westerns, Erotica

Mithras, Mithraism & Mithraic Mysteries: All Ancient Greek and Latin Texts Relating to Mithras and the Mithraists
ΑΝΑΔΗΜΟΣΙΕΥΣΗ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΣΗΜΕΡΑ ΑΝΕΝΕΡΓΟ ΜΠΛΟΓΚ “ΟΙ ΡΩΜΙΟΙ ΤΗΣ ΑΝΑΤΟΛΗΣ”
Το κείμενο του κ. Νίκου Μπαϋρακτάρη είχε αρχικά δημοσιευθεί την 7η Μαΐου 2019.
Αναδημοσίευση από το https://www.tertullian.org/ όλων των αρχαιοελληνικών και λατινικών κειμενικών αναφορών στον Μίθρα. Οι αρχαίες ιρανικές ιστορικές πηγές των αχαιμενιδικών, αρσακιδικών και σασανιδικών και οι αναφορές των Αρχαίων Ελλήνων και Ρωμαίων στον Μίθρα μας βοηθούν τόσο στην ανασύσταση της τρομερής θρησκευτικής διαπάλης των αχαιμενιδικών χρόνων (550-330) ανάμεσα στον Ζωροαστρισμό και τον Μιθραϊσμό, όσο και στην κατανόηση της μεγάλης άγνοιας των Αρχαίων Ελλήνων και Ρωμαίων σχετικά με τις θρησκείες του Ιράν. Με άλλα λόγια, οι Αρχαίοι Έλληνες και Ρωμαίοι δεν στάθηκαν ικανοί να διακρίνουν την τρομερή αντιπαλότητα των Ζωροαστριστών και Μιθραϊστών Ιρανών με τους οποίους συνδιαλέγοντο. Έτσι, η τεράστια σύγχυση σχετικά με το αχαιμενιδικό Ιράν διατηρήθηκε επί μακρόν και επέδρασε αρνητικά στις ρωμαιοϊρανικές σχέσεις κατά τα αρσακιδικά και τα σασανιδικά χρόνια. Αυτή η σύγχυση βρήκε την συνέχειά της στα χριστιανοϊσλαμικά χρόνια, όταν οι Ρωμιοί ιστορικοί δεν μπορούσαν να εννοήσουν τις θρησκευτικές, ψυχικές-πνευματικές, μυστικιστικές και θεολογικές έριδες οι οποίες εκδηλώθηκαν εντός του ισλαμικού χαλιφάτου.
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First republished on 24th November 2021 here:
https://medium.com/@megalommatis/μίθρας-μιθραϊσμός-μιθραϊκά-μυστήρια-όλα-τα-αρχαία-ελληνικά-και-λατινικά-κείμενα-που-αναφέρονται-daced093cb3

- by Shamsaddin Megalommatis
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- Roman History, History of Religion, Spirituality, Iranian Studies
- by Sara Rossi
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- Ghosts, Cultural History Of Ghosts, Paranormal, Events

Moving from Barnesmoore's (2016) theorization of humans as beings with the potential for conscious (epistemological) evolution, this article argues that a revolution in the ideas by which ('world view' in which) we conceive of potential practice must necessarily precede a revolution of academic and social practice (that theory necessarily precedes practice). Revolution must be rooted in revolutionary ideas and cannot be facilitated by practices that rise from (are rationalized within) the hegemonic essence (ideas, axioms and logics) of the regime against which revolution is being waged.

The Voynich Manuscript contains an image of a cannon on f. 82r.

- by Don Hoffmann
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- Artillery, Art History, History of Medicine, Manuscripts and Early Printed Books