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The Cult Dossier · No. 004 · Ancient Mystery Cult
Orphic Mysteries
Orphism
c.6th c. BCE – 4th c. CE · Greece, Magna Graecia, Crete
I. ANTIQUITY — THE MYSTERY CULTS
Fully religious
### Who led it
### What it worshipped and taught
### Who was in it
### How it ended, or where it stands
### The dead
### Of note
### Its timeline
- c.500 BCE Earliest Orphic gold tablets (Hipponion, Petelia, Thurii).
- c.340 BCE Derveni Papyrus — the oldest surviving European manuscript — an allegorical commentary on an Orphic theogony.
- 4th c. CE Absorbed into Neoplatonism; the poems survive as literature.
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