Sentence examples for initiation cults from inspiring English sources

Religious life revolved largely around male initiation cults of various creative and peregrinatory heroes, fertility cults, and funerary ceremonies.

A crucible for underground cults, initiation rites, false converts".

It looked like something you would wear to a cult initiation.

He brought the great shrine of Demeter at Eleusis under state control and constructed the first major Hall of the Mysteries (Telesterion) for the annual rites of initiation into the cult.

The lecture begins with an in-depth examination of the unique Dionysiac Mysteries painting in Pompeii in which young brides prepare for and enter into a mystical marriage with the god Dionysus and simultaneous initiation into his cult.

Perhaps, as the Villa's title has it, the frieze is meant to depict an initiation into the cult of Dionysus: hence the revelation of the phallus, and the flagellation.

If all the ritual sounds just shy of a new age-y cult initiation, well, maybe it was.

Between the trance they put me in with their looping vocals, distortion pedals, Moog, samplers, vocal delay pedal, et al. and the mega-sweating that was happening all around, it was the perfect backdrop for a cult initiation.

As almost every Greek did join in, initiation into the Dionysiac cult might be compared to tribal initiations.

It derives its name from an astonishing fresco depicting a rite of initiation into Dionysus's cult that covers the walls of a triclinium, a dining room.

Humiliation and injury were the main elements of his initiation into the local cult and difficult art of wave-riding, but this story of a sensitive boy's saltwater education is laconic and assured; the author compares watching a gangly pro on a tiny board tear apart waves to watching a barbarian torch a village from atop a dwarf pony.