Over the next two thousand years cultures throughout the Mediterranean adopted this myth, with its promise of immortality, and made their own. They synthesized sophisticated Egyptian spirituality with their own indigenous mythology to create the various 'mystery religions' of the ancient world. Each mystery religion taught its own version of the myth of the dying and ressurecting Godman, who was known by different names in different places. In Egypt, where the mysteries began, he was Osiris. In Greece he becomes Dionysus, in Asia Minor he is known as Attis, in Syria he is Adonis, in Persia he is Mithras, in Alexandria he is Serapis, to name a few.![]()
^So how was their respective apostles called? And where are the church they instituted?
paganism was a fancy name to refer to "other" "religions" in the west during the early times.
Correct me if I am wrong ha..
"All religion came from paganism.."
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