Orphic Mysteries
(Greece)
- Deity: Dionysus (Zagreus)
- Theme: Soul purification and escape from reincarnation
- Texts: Orphic hymns and gold leaf tablets
- Beliefs: The soul is divine and imprisoned in the body (the tomb); salvation comes through purity, initiation, and living a vegetarian, ascetic life.
- Mythic Core: Dionysus was dismembered by the Titans; humans are made from both divine (Dionysus) and Titanic (base) nature.