Ancient Greece and Western Mystery Schools

[Audiolog Edu]

Aparently Greece was the first Country in the Western World where Mystery Schools started, they had the Orphic Mysteries, Eleusinian Mysteries, the Oracle of Delphi, Etc. Ive also heard Pitagoras spent time in Egypt, studying Isis Mysteries, and then initiated in Greece into other Mystery schools, probably creating his own.
Egypt already had its own Mystery schools, with mystical and ritualistic texts like The Pyramid Texts, The Coffin Texts and The Book of the Dead reflects the tradition and initiatory practices in ancient Egypt but Greece helped take this mysteries to Europe and changed religion, culture, art forever after but some ceased after christianity.
Also the Hellenistic period (4th century BCE) helped syncretice and spread Greek culture from Greece and Egypt in the west to India in the east.

 

[Magpie]

Do you think that abundant similarities between Greek and Indian traditions means they came from Greece and were not simply developed independently in India? I was wondering about it myself - timescales were very close. Pointless to list all the common themes between them, you know more about them than me.

 

[Audiolog Edu]

I actually think many traditions started in India, as I was researching Taoist teachings did reached Mesopotamia but I think Greece syncretice cultures around the Hellenistic period, adopting others religions and initiatory practices, I am not that good in the topic, Im barely researching on YouTube

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Do you think that abundant similarities between Greek and Indian traditions means they came from Greece and were not simply developed independently in India? I was wondering about it myself - timescales were very close. Pointless to list all the common themes between them, you know more about them than me.

Also I forgot to mentioned one important point is that Qabalah evolved in Greece, it was not the same, so maybe some things that Greek Mystery schools had where improved in Ancient Greece.