Thracian Cult - from Practice to Belief

Archibald, Zosia

doi:10.1163/9789004351257_019

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Samothrace: Location and Cult1

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“…These semantics are consonant with the chthonic, archaic, and pre‐Greek nature of the Kabeiroi; the bothroi have intriguing parallels in the Kabeirion at Boiotian Thebes (Schachter 2003). They may also reflect the pre‐Greek history specific to this region, as they are prevalent in the Thracian cults of the mainland (Archibald 1999:459).…”

Section: Samothrace: Location and Cultmentioning

confidence: 99%

5  Toward an Archaeology of Secrecy: Power, Paradox, and the Great Gods of Samothrace

Blakely

2011

Archaeological Papers of the American

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The mystery cult of the Great Gods of Samothrace offers productive material for theory building with respect to the archaeology of secrecy in ritual contexts. The social practice of secrecy builds political power and relies on communicative strategies that simultaneously conceal and reveal, employing culturally specific codes involving abstraction, ambiguity, metaphor, and allusion. Samothrace increased its secrecy as it grew in prestige: archaeological materialization of this secrecy includes euphemistic inscriptions and magnetized iron rings used as tokens of initiation. The rings use myth, philosophy, and ritual practice to communicate the initiate's status while emphasizing the rites' resistance to disclosure. [secrecy, Greece, initiation, iron, magnetism]

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Section: Samothrace: Location and Cultmentioning

confidence: 99%