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00:00:00 Introduction and Welcome 00:04:06 Part One The Greek Mystery Cults 00:06:50 1. The Eleusinian Mysteries c. 15th Century BCE 392 CE 00:19:04 2. The Dionysian Mysteries and the Bacchanalia c. 7th Century BCE 00:28:34 3. The Orphic Mysteries c. 6th Century BCE 00:33:42 4. The Samothracian Mysteries c. 7th Century BCE 4th Century CE 00:37:19 5. The Cult of the Cabeiri c. 8th Century BCE 00:40:54 Part Two The Eastern Mystery Imports 00:42:29 6. The Cult of Cybele and Attis the Magna Mater c. 6th Century BCE 4th Century CE 00:48:22 7. The Cult of Isis c. 3rd Century BCE 6th Century CE 00:54:42 8. The Cult of Mithras Mithraism 1st 4th Century CE 01:01:33 9. The Cult of Atargatis the Syrian Goddess c. 8th Century BCE 3rd Century CE 01:05:54 10. The Cult of Sabazios c. 5th Century BCE 4th Century CE 01:09:42 Part Three Greco-Roman Esoteric and Philosophical 01:13:56 11. The Pythagorean Brotherhood c. 530 BCE c. 300 BCE 01:20:45 12. The Hermetic Tradition c. 1st 4th Century CE 01:25:04 13. The Vestal Virgins c. 7th Century BCE 394 CE 01:32:00 14. The Arval Brethren c. 7th Century BCE 4th Century CE 01:35:19 15. The Sol Invictus Cult 274 CE c. 380 CE 01:41:08 16. The Cult of Baal and the Moloch Controversy c. 14th Century BCE 2nd Century CE 01:47:44 17. The Cult of Tanit c. 8th Century BCE 2nd Century CE 01:51:25 18. The Cult of Adonis c. 8th Century BCE 4th Century CE 01:56:05 Part Six Egyptian 01:58:05 19. The Cult of Osiris c. 3000 BCE 4th Century CE 02:05:08 20. The Cult of Serapis c. 285 BCE 391 CE Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXFf7OgCuOdcygnWp32Xk6g/join Support the channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ASMRHistorian Merch: https://histmerch.shop/ Sources and Further Reading Burkert, Walter. Ancient Mystery Cults (1987). Harvard University Press. Graf, Fritz, and Johnston, Sarah Iles. Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets (2007). Routledge. Wasson, R. Gordon, Hofmann, Albert, and Ruck, Carl. The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries (1978). Harcourt. Ulansey, David. The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries (1989). Oxford University Press. Apuleius. The Golden Ass [Metamorphoses]. Trans. P.G. Walsh (1994). Oxford University Press. Lucian of Samosata. De Dea Syria. Trans. Harold Arthur Strong and John Garstang (2010). Yates, Frances. Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (1964). University of Chicago Press. Schwartz, Jeffrey, Houghton, Frank, Bondioli, Luca, and Macchiarelli, Roberto. "The Skeletal Biology of the Carthaginian Tophet." Antiquity 84 (2010). Lancellotti, Maria Grazia. Atargatis (2002). Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni. Frankfurter, David. Christianizing Egypt: Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity (2018). Princeton University Press. Information sourced from Wiki, Gutenburg, JSTOR, primary and secondary sources. All information is congruent with archaeological and history evidence at the time of recording.