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For this round, let’s look at: Cults! According to the Qianlong Emperor, the Three Kingdoms general Guan Yu, the Manchu founder Nurgaci, and the Tibetan mythic hero Gesar were all aspects of a single common war god, and so their differing cultic practices were simply different dimensions of the same core concept. This week, let's talk about cults!
I often hear about the “cults” of various gods in the Roman world before the adoption of Christianity.
What were relations between the various cults like? How seriously did most people take it? If I were in, say, the cult of Vulcan, how would I feel about my daughter marrying someone in the cult of Ceres? Would I be willing to do business with a follower of Juno? Would I be more likely to support politicians in the same cult as me?
What is it about upstate NY that led to so many cults developing there? Mormons, Oneida Community. The spiritual movement led by the Fox sisters. Even today the 12 Tribes seem to be scattered around the state