"A kind of secular mystery cult, God-building was another part of the late-19th-century European current in which occultism and science marched hand in hand," Gray writes.
Ritual drama in general is amply attested in Egyptian religious practice; day-to-day ceremonial in the cult of gods or god-kings (pharaohs) was recorded in the minutest detail.
In the Vedic cult the god of fire, Agni, received the offerings of men and brought them into the presence of the gods.
He claimed that the parts of the Bible with which he disagreed had been added by the Jews, and that Yahweh, as the cult called God, permitted polygamy, which had enabled him to marry not only a second wife but that wife's two sisters, one of whom was fifteen, as well as their mother.
Claudia seeks Heather to birth the cult's god, since Heather is Alessa's reincarnation.
While following the spirit manifestation, he stumbles upon a burning house and rescues the real Alessa, who was immolated in a ritual to impregnate her with the cult's god.
In China, up to one thousand members of the Christian cult Almighty God were arrested, after claiming that the end of b'ak'tun 13 marked the end of the world, and that it was time to overthrow Communism.
The plurality of cults and gods also induced skepticism, as with the Sophist Protagoras (c. 481 411 bce), who was driven from Athens because he dared to question the existence of the gods.
Artifacts related to the cults of gods such as Isis, Osiris, Serapis, Kybele, Serapios, Dionysos or Mithras have been found at the site of every Roman settlement in Switzerland.
Many more persevered in their way of life, and we saw that they neither offered proper worship and cult to the gods, or to the god of the Christians.
