SRS 1110 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mysteries Of Isis, Dionysian Mysteries, Eleusinian Mysteries

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS 1110
• Professor: Shelley Rabinovitch

Document Summary

But of the catholic church was to eliminate all those who worship the goddesse and it land, And within these people there were a lot of women, There were so many women killed that in the history it could be call the destruction of women( and their power). That is when the witch hunting started in europ and other countries from the 15th centuries to the 17th . The death toll among women was greatest where the popular image of a practitioner of malefic magic was female. In italie and iceland where evul magic was believed to be the providence of men, virility. Is a secret initiatory religion organized around ritual enactment of a particular myth. Myth such as fasting, flogging, and/ or surprise beholding sarced objects or use of entheogens(hallucinogens) which helps to the transition into more spiritual state. These religions have some mysteries of life, deities to pray to, salvation in the afterlife.