isisism

Updated: May 10, 2025

+1059+. These national systems exhibit a gradual quiet enlargement of the ritual resulting from increasing specialization in the conception of sin and forgiveness and in the functions of religious officials. A different sort of development appears in the rites of the cults that sprang up on the ruins of the old faiths Greek Mysteries, Mithraism, Isisism, Christianity.

Crawford Howell Toy - Introduction to the History of Religions: Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV