The Cult of Mithras | Secret Societies 1 | Roman History | Extra History

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Join Ordo Extra Historia as we take you on a journey into the depths of secret societies. Starting with The Cult of Mithras which would later come to define other secret societies with their mysterious rituals, initiation rites, rank systems, and whispers of magic that spread throughout Roman society, particularly among soldiers.
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[@DragoniteSpam]

Fun fact about the cult of Pythagoras: they were allegedly so put off by irrational numbers that you weren't even told about their existence until you made it to the higher tiers.

[@EfrainMan]

Man, I'd love it if in some ancient text somewhere, someone who was denied membership to one of these cults wrote out the ancient Roman equivalent of "Why won't those stupid idiots let me in their crappy club for jerks?" lol.

[@tannerhudson3382]

Funnily enough, I begin my Vampire: the Masquerade campaign tonight, and the Cult of Mithras play a huge role in the lore of that game

[@jamminkeys]

the scorpion giving the bull the clamp is such a bizarre detail lol

[@Cheshire1501]

Who controls the British crown?~

[@KyleRayner12]

Fun fact: the Dionysian cult was chthonic (focusing on gods and rituals relating to death) and discussed wine as a metaphor for death and rebirth.

[@RickJaeger]

The spectrum between what we know today as Organized Religions, Occult Rituals, gentleman's clubs, labor/trade unions/guilds, fraternal orders, and insurance companies is such a fascinating area of history. Not quite fully religious, not quite fully political, not quite fully social, and not quite fully economic, but including aspects of all. It's something that doesn't really compute for us in our thoroughly modern contemporary culture.

[@DragoniteSpam]

I was about to ask who the pater of the EC society was, but then I realized it's Zoey. Of course it's Zoey.

[@jackukridge5381]

One of my favourite places to visit is the London Mithreum! Its an awesome underrated and free place to visit. They use lights and fog to rebuild the temple, it is breathtaking.

[@jorgelotr3752]

AFAIK the oldest secret society known was the cult of Ceres and Persephone at Eleusis, from where the word "mystery" as commonly used stems ( a "mystery" was originally just a religious rite based on an event of its founding mythos, but since theirs were the ones whose existence was the most well-known, while also being the most unknown, it ended with its current meaning).

[@chowyee5049]

I remember how Raised by Wolves had Mithraism take Christianity's place and thinking how unrealistic it was. Christianity's whole strength was in NOT being a secret society with elite membership. If Mithraism was to spread the way Christianity did it would have had to reorganize significantly.

[@finaginbaginagin6129]

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[@livy456]

God I've been obsessed with Mithras and his cult for so long, so glad yall are doing a video on it! I hope there will be mentions of Sol Invictus and the Tauroctony

[@FakeBlocks]

Please do the Greek war of independence of 1821 against the ottoman empire next

[@raisnaix]

Real talk - LOVE THIS! You need to tackle the Eleusinian Mysteries!!

[@KentuckyFriedOrgans]

Me: Walking down a dark pathway

[@PT5-Shorts]

I hope yinz cover the Hermetic Orders of the 20th century, such as The Golden Dawn

[@tonysladky8925]

How can there be a series on "secret societIES", plural? Aren't all these groups just subsets of the Order of Assassins in their endless, globe- and history-spanning battle to keep alien artifacts out of the hands of the Knights Templar?

[@briannamcdaniel266]

Amazing as always!