religious, social, and political mechanisms that »allowed« a new deity to arrive and settle down in an alien context. The main focus was on Athens (e.g. Asklepios, Bendis, Pan, etc.) and Rome (Castores, Aesculapius
of Sol invictus Elagabal was condemned to damnatio memoriae only because it had remained alien, while, on the contrary, Aurelianus’ deus Sol invictus (in fact a Syrian Baal ) underwent the
mainly in their approach to the “foreignness” of Judaism; Cicero calls the cult foreign and sees it as alien to the Roman worldview whereas Varro considers the Jewish religion to be simply a manifestation of
could be orgeones , notably the Thracian orgeones of Bendis; and, as Ferguson stresses, ‘aliens were debarred from being phratry members’. [25] He states that it was impossible for the
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