Re: A new blog on European tradition and religion
Again, I could and should write an entire essay on this highlighted line.
From my research, I get the invlination that paganism had/has a sydtem of mysteries to it and that the common man had only a fraction of the knowledge held by those who involved themselves within cultic socities such as that of Mithraism, which it can be assumed had something to do with PIE religion as Mithra is depicted always as wearing a phrygian cap, which is of Yamnaya origin and worn more commonly by germanic tribes.
I wish to do more research into this area, but it does not make sense to me that if there was not a tiered system of knowledge what the purpose in priests would have been at all.
Use christianity (yeah, I know) as an example. Why do priests exist? To decipher the scripture and simplify it for the layman. Why do bishops exist? To advise priests and further their spiritual education.
Every religion for obvious reasons has a tiered system of knowledge under which the average person only has a limited understanding.
Paganism is even more "mysterious" if you will, as there were no scriptures to reas as far as we know and so a person would have to learn the lore by word of mouth. IE the knowledge would have to be sought out.
Again, I could and should write an entire essay on this highlighted line.
From my research, I get the invlination that paganism had/has a sydtem of mysteries to it and that the common man had only a fraction of the knowledge held by those who involved themselves within cultic socities such as that of Mithraism, which it can be assumed had something to do with PIE religion as Mithra is depicted always as wearing a phrygian cap, which is of Yamnaya origin and worn more commonly by germanic tribes.
I wish to do more research into this area, but it does not make sense to me that if there was not a tiered system of knowledge what the purpose in priests would have been at all.
Use christianity (yeah, I know) as an example. Why do priests exist? To decipher the scripture and simplify it for the layman. Why do bishops exist? To advise priests and further their spiritual education.
Every religion for obvious reasons has a tiered system of knowledge under which the average person only has a limited understanding.
Paganism is even more "mysterious" if you will, as there were no scriptures to reas as far as we know and so a person would have to learn the lore by word of mouth. IE the knowledge would have to be sought out.
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