Mystery religions are very old and, at least in ancient times, came from two main sources. The first came from Egyptian mythology about the god of Osiris, his wife, known as the goddess Isis, with their child called the god Horus. Later sources came from Greek mythology about the goddesses known as Demeter and Persephone. Both traditions concerned a god or goddess who died symbolically or actually, but was resurrected in some way. Both religions involved series of births, deaths as well as reincarnations in nature, particularly the seasons. Although it is difficult to find a direct connection between them, the two traditions may have reflected an even older tradition of the sacred marriage of the Sumerian gods known as Inanna and Dumuzi. Furthermore, these traditions had above all a pastoral origin and were probably linked to simple fertility customs, which differed depending on the place. This feature of mysteries is hard to miss. The emphasis on secrecy and multi-level initiation procedures is quite evident. This is assumed to be due to invasions or migrations; this meant that the inhabitants of a given region defined their personal religious customs, but as migrants settled their territory, they kept these customs to themselves. Pastoral customs were consolidated at the beginning of the first millennium. In Egypt, the myth of Osiris or Isis became the foundation of pharaonic authority; the Pharaoh was considered the agent of Osiris on earth and came from him through Horus. The resurrected Osiris was the ruler of the underworld, Pharaoh was the ruler of the earth, and Horus was the ruler of the sky. The history of mystery religions never died middle of paper...... The classical religion of the polis, however, constituted special subsets of the worship of certain gods. A number of cults dealt particularly with the subject of life after death. The basic Greek ideology of the afterlife was not beautiful. One existed as a shadow in the underworld. In the Odyssey, as Odysseus passes through the underworld and reunites with the ghost of the supreme of fighters, Achilles, Odysseus tells him that he was very supreme in life and that his eternal fame assured him so much that he should not not consider death as so rigid. . Achilles then said: “Speak not a word in favor of death; I would rather be a paid servant in a poor man's house and be on the surface than the king of kings among the dead. In the past, magic spells and prayers were mostly written on small sheets of paper or beaten metal, which were eventually rolled up and worn as an ornament around the neck...