Orfeu, o cantor dos mistérios

Abstract

We intend to analyze characteristics of the founding Orphic cult, especially initiation, abstinence from meat and sacrifice of hymns, as well as highlighting the relevance of this cult of mysteries in the formation of Greek ideas about the soul, in the classical period, as opposed to the archaic period. According to Manfred Lurker (2003:500), the cult expressed externally, respect related to the divine within. Are part of religious festivals and mysteries, which correspond, in turn, the "secret cults as opposed to cults of state" (p. 443). The participation in the mysteries, however, claim a ticket ritual, a rite of passage, a transition symbolic death to rebirth. "In antiquity, the initiation was admission to the mysteries." (P.349)