Fertility Religion
-they worship vegetiative cycle of death and rebirth----winter-spring-winter-spring

Two main figures in fert. religion
-Earth mother
-male companion

the main features of the cults of cybelle and attis and isis and osiris are:

-attis castrates himself-brought back to life by cybelle as a evergreen tree.
Attis cheated on cybele and made attis crazy.

Isis-earth mother figure
Osiris-killed by set.-osiris comes back up god of the dead.

Mystery versions of both cults later developed

Myster Religions
-have fertility aspect
-secret rits and coeromonies
-ceremonial meals and ritual washings
-dying and ressurecting gods

Most christioan rituals and beleifs tracable to judaism

Hellestic Jews- jews who are culturally greek

Early christian heresies
-Docetism
-jesus humanity is an illusion. NO human nature.no body

-monophysitism
-jusu has body but no human nature. no human soul. god in body

-nestorianism-
-jesus has human nture, but seperate from divne natural.. the human part could suffer, die, pray, be ignorant- but god part cant

-Arianism
-jesus had full human nature,but not fully fivine. jesus was created by god the father, jesus is not god himself.---jehovas witness still practice this

-Sabellianism
-father, son, and holy spirit are modes or manifistation of god.---united pentecost church practice this

Mary
-becuase of pagan religion
pagan religion already worship the godesses, so twhen they turn christian, the worship mary.