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The elite families kept their rites a secret. it is a common thing since the Greeks to have private family deities, hero/champion worship for local towns. So it need not be occult, but esoterism seems to be a basis for these religions and rather popular even up to modern times. The 'pagan revivalist' movements in Italy always have a strongly esotericist angle. There were several centres of initiation throughout the empire that got wiped out by Christianity.
The formal establishment of the pomerium, the sacred boundary of the city, is indeed credited to Servius Tullius, or according to some accounts, Tarquinius Priscus.
Christianity imitated these rites with play-acting. Baptism is a child's acting version of pagan initiation rites of epiphany.
Many important roman emperors are documented as being initiates. Augustus was initiated at Eleusis, his deathbed words reflect neoplatonic philosophy (the part has been acted nobly, clap as we depart) so was Hadrian and Antoninus Pius. Hadrian enacted religious reforms and tried to make peace with Christians. He created various 'empty temples', speculated to house Christian iconography.
The Christjew angle throws a wrench into these works. Because it wasn't just Christianity that was innovative, but the cult of Venus Erycina, which was a sort of theophany prostitute cult where the hierodules would transform into Venus and engage in sacred prostitution. It was permitted by Sibylline Book as well as many other feminine innovations that gradually overthrew the Mars-rooted order and militaristic patriarchal ethos, before the full feminine cult of Christianity took the place of the emperor. Their integration into Roman religion was performed under an Etruscan king, within a temple complex (Jupiter Optimus Maximus) built by Etruscans, and within a religious world shaped by Etruscan ritual law.
That's not it. It then suppressed divine emperors that rose up throughout Europe for the next 1000 years.
The elite families kept their rites a secret. it is a common thing since the Greeks to have private family deities, hero/champion worship for local towns. So it need not be occult, but esoterism seems to be a basis for these religions and rather popular even up to modern times. The 'pagan revivalist' movements in Italy always have a strongly esotericist angle. There were several centres of initiation throughout the empire that got wiped out by Christianity.
The formal establishment of the pomerium, the sacred boundary of the city, is indeed credited to Servius Tullius, or according to some accounts, Tarquinius Priscus.
Christianity imitated these rites with play-acting. Baptism is a child's acting version of pagan initiation rites of epiphany.
Many important roman emperors are documented as being initiates. Augustus was initiated at Eleusis, his deathbed words reflect neoplatonic philosophy (the part has been acted nobly, clap as we depart) so was Hadrian and Antoninus Pius. Hadrian enacted religious reforms and tried to make peace with Christians. He created various 'empty temples', speculated to house Christian iconography.
The Christjew angle throws a wrench into these works. Because it wasn't just Christianity that was innovative, but the cult of Venus Erycina, which was a sort of theophany prostitute cult where the hierodules would transform into Venus and engage in sacred prostitution. It was permitted by Sibylline Book as well as many other feminine innovations that gradually overthrew the Mars-rooted order and militaristic patriarchal ethos, before the full feminine cult of Christianity took the place of the emperor. Their integration into Roman religion was performed under an Etruscan king, within a temple complex (Jupiter Optimus Maximus) built by Etruscans, and within a religious world shaped by Etruscan ritual law.
That's not it. It then suppressed divine emperors that rose up throughout Europe for the next 1000 years.
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