Journal, Art.3
I think many people believe that Romans and Greeks, had this big group of twelve main gods, all around ( Zeus for Greeks and Jupiter for Romans), and that their religion was that. And that was it.
Well, I think, if I am not wrong, that that wasn’t ‘that is it’.
Not at all.
We have all ready been taught about their devotion to the main religion, the polytheistic believe in this anthropomorphic gods that could affect human lives, but where somehow unreachable and super powerful, often prayed to, and everything was related somehow to them, such as all the many temples we’ve studied or heard of.
But with time, and the discovery of philosophy or in some moments of religious and political crisis , ‘new’ ‘different’ ‘extra’ religions and cults are developed.
In the VI BD the Orphic cult rises in a moment of enormous change for the Greek society. Very related to the philosophical movements that where starting to rise too, and that , themselves, started , in some cases, to be considered self-made religions.
And later one, among Romans, that had transformed the Greeks Gods, into theirs by changing their names, we will see the rising up of many other small pray groups, and later one the big Christian Movement.
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