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Greek Religious and Mythological worship and practices. The Greek society revolved around many different gods and these gods controlled and influenced daily and social life, this made their religion polytheistic which means the religion has more than 1 god therefore the ancient Greek religion was part of some of the earliest forms of paganism. The religion showed that there where signs of Druidism, Wicca, forms of modern and older styles of witchcraft. The Greeks tried to please the gods therefore bringing the community together in the shared goal to try to please the gods to achieve good fortune and safety. Like today the ancient Greeks did not have a heretical system and did not greatly punish heretics and people from other countries or travelers like ancient Egyptians or Roman. The ancient Greek religious acts mainly consisted of rituals and sometimes cult practices. The practices and religion did not only reside in Greece but in other island such as Sicily, Massalia and also some of the southern part of Italy. Ceremonies and rituals were mainly preformed at altars along with sacrifices. Sacrifices where mainly domestic animals where some parts where burnt for the god and the rest of the carcass was then eaten by the people. A sacrifice was rarely a human mainly slaves were sacrificed in a ritual otherwise it would be an animal. An important rite was on the sixth or seventh day of a newborn baby's life this was greatly important especial if the child was a boy this rite of passage was called the amphidormia.if a person did not believe in the main religion they would either have no religion which was rare or they would join a cult which a person would have to be initiated to learn the secrets of the cult. after initiation the person would learn, find religious consultation which was not given in the main religion, a mystical awakening, a map to the afterlife and more. The Greeks had Oracles who where said to communicate with the gods, therefore they where sought after to tell the future or give advice from the gods. Before a person was to consult an oracle they had to hang around a temple gaining the trust and letting the priest of a temple know who he is and then a person would consult the oracle. Ancient Greek oracles had an advantage because the priest at the temple would get to know you and meet you in person compared to a random person over a phone who would be miles away and not even know what you look like.The other point is that if a man asked if he should marry a woman the oracle would know who the woman is and be able to answer and give true answer that where sent from the gods and an explanation rather than a yes and no answer and if the woman the man was talking about came to the oracle and asked if her boyfriend was going to propose to her the oracle would already know the answer but if it was a random woman asking the question the psychic over the phone wold not know therefore not having an advantage.



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