98:5.5 At first it was a [[religion]] only for [[men]], and there were [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithras#Degrees_of_initiation seven different orders] into which believers could be successively initiated. Later on, the [[wives]] and daughters of believers were admitted to the [[temples]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybele Great Mother], which adjoined the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithras#The_Mithraeum Mithraic temples]. The [[women]]'s [[cult]] was a mixture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithras#Rituals_and_worship Mithraic ritual] and the [[ceremonies]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybele#Anatolia_and_Greece Phrygian cult of Cybele], the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybele#Cybele_and_Attis mother of Attis]. | 98:5.5 At first it was a [[religion]] only for [[men]], and there were [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithras#Degrees_of_initiation seven different orders] into which believers could be successively initiated. Later on, the [[wives]] and daughters of believers were admitted to the [[temples]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybele Great Mother], which adjoined the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithras#The_Mithraeum Mithraic temples]. The [[women]]'s [[cult]] was a mixture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithras#Rituals_and_worship Mithraic ritual] and the [[ceremonies]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybele#Anatolia_and_Greece Phrygian cult of Cybele], the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybele#Cybele_and_Attis mother of Attis]. |