Comments on: Faith - IV http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/04/07/faith-iv/ Some place between 40 and Death Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:31:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Huw http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/04/07/faith-iv/#comment-2470 Huw Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:41:35 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/?p=2496#comment-2470 Yes! They have <a href="http://www.sacredsource.com/prodinfo.asp?number=BMT" rel="nofollow">One of My Favourites</a>... Yes! They have One of My Favourites…

]]> By: Benjamin Andersen http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/04/07/faith-iv/#comment-2469 Benjamin Andersen Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:36:31 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/?p=2496#comment-2469 Hmm, that's an interesting link. I like the Christian statuary it offers! Hmm, that’s an interesting link. I like the Christian statuary it offers!

]]> By: Huw http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/04/07/faith-iv/#comment-2468 Huw Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:19:06 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/?p=2496#comment-2468 Depends on who you ask. The <a href="http://www.sacredsource.com/prodinfo.asp?number=MIT" rel="nofollow">Bull Slaying image</a> seen in most Mithraic temples may be a rite as well as an icon: and some temples were located next to the local temple of the Magna Mater. But there are differing opinions about the rite itself. Added: And I don't think there are any Mythraic temples that have Bull Slaying areas in them. Not sure. Depends on who you ask. The Bull Slaying image seen in most Mithraic temples may be a rite as well as an icon: and some temples were located next to the local temple of the Magna Mater. But there are differing opinions about the rite itself.

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And I don’t think there are any Mythraic temples that have Bull Slaying areas in them. Not sure.

]]> By: Benjamin Andersen http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/04/07/faith-iv/#comment-2467 Benjamin Andersen Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:14:12 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/?p=2496#comment-2467 "Point of trivia: the Bull scene was for the Magna Mater… and involved a woman. Couldn’t have been Mithras :-)" I wondered about that, actually! I was skeptical that women were allowed into Mithraism. But the Magna Mater bull ceremony was pretty close to what was done in Mithraism, no? “Point of trivia: the Bull scene was for the Magna Mater… and involved a woman. Couldn’t have been Mithras :-)”

I wondered about that, actually! I was skeptical that women were allowed into Mithraism. But the Magna Mater bull ceremony was pretty close to what was done in Mithraism, no?

]]> By: Huw http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/04/07/faith-iv/#comment-2466 Huw Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:10:14 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/?p=2496#comment-2466 Quite all right! I did a paper on Mithraism that was published in a Neopagan journal back in the late 80s and it was the topic of my... um... not sure what to compare it with.. the research project I did before I was made an Elder in the tradition I was practising. Anyway. Long time ago and far away... but one of my favourite topics! Have you read <a href="http://www.well.com/~davidu/mithras.html" rel="nofollow">Dr David Ulansey's research</a> on the topic? It's very good and very different from other such writings. Point of trivia: the Bull scene was for the Magna Mater... and involved a woman. Couldn't have been Mithras :-) Quite all right! I did a paper on Mithraism that was published in a Neopagan journal back in the late 80s and it was the topic of my… um… not sure what to compare it with.. the research project I did before I was made an Elder in the tradition I was practising. Anyway. Long time ago and far away… but one of my favourite topics!

Have you read Dr David Ulansey’s research on the topic? It’s very good and very different from other such writings.

Point of trivia: the Bull scene was for the Magna Mater… and involved a woman. Couldn’t have been Mithras :-)

]]> By: Benjamin Andersen http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/04/07/faith-iv/#comment-2465 Benjamin Andersen Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:00:57 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/?p=2496#comment-2465 "the mystery religions of Greece and Rome" Well, of course, there are those scholars (such as Dom Odo Casel) who thought that some of early Christian Sacramental practice may have been based on the rites of some of these mystery religions. I've always thought that Mithraism would have been fun to belong to. There's a very interesting brief depiction of their initiation rite (bathing oneself in the blood of a bull) in the HBO series "Rome". Sorry, that's not the topic of this post ... :-) “the mystery religions of Greece and Rome”

Well, of course, there are those scholars (such as Dom Odo Casel) who thought that some of early Christian Sacramental practice may have been based on the rites of some of these mystery religions.

I’ve always thought that Mithraism would have been fun to belong to. There’s a very interesting brief depiction of their initiation rite (bathing oneself in the blood of a bull) in the HBO series “Rome”.

Sorry, that’s not the topic of this post … :-)

]]> By: Huw http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/04/07/faith-iv/#comment-2463 Huw Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:11:53 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/?p=2496#comment-2463 Read the three, then. LOL. I'd say it was simple superstition: a taboo-based faith that has more resemblance to the mystery religions of Greece and Rome than of the simple trust-in-God that Jesus taught. Read the three, then. LOL. I’d say it was simple superstition: a taboo-based faith that has more resemblance to the mystery religions of Greece and Rome than of the simple trust-in-God that Jesus taught.

]]> By: Joffridus http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/04/07/faith-iv/#comment-2462 Joffridus Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:42:11 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/?p=2496#comment-2462 well. . . what? well. . . what?

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