As the name implies, members of the cult were supposed to have gained some secret knowledge.

Statuary, cult objects, religious offerings and unsalvageable architectural members were buried ceremoniously in several deeply dug pits on the hill, serving conveniently as a fill for the artificial plateau created around the classic Parthenon.

* 1969 – A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.

The first was the late 7th century Deuteronomistic reform of official Judean religion under king Josiah, who banned many elements of the old polytheistic cult from the Temple, and the sudden collapse of Assyria and the rise of Babylon to take its place ; the second was exile of the royal court, the priests and other members of the ruling elite following the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem c. 586 BCE.

The judge concluded that it was only in " the last months of 1977 Berg started counseling the members that it was permissible for proselyting reasons to offer sexual contacts and services to perspective members, the more so when the latter were potentially good financial contributors to the cult ".

The Dialog Center International ( DCI ) a major Christian counter-cult organization founded in 1973 by a Danish professor of missiology and ecumenical theology, Dr. Johannes Aagaard rejects deprogramming, believing that it is counterproductive, ineffective, and can harm the relationship between a cult member and concerned family members.

Because they rely on coercion, which is illegal except in the case of conservatorship and is generally viewed as unethical, deprogrammers ' critiques of the unethical practices of cults will tend to have less credibility with cult members than the critiques of exit counselors.

The film received critical praise, and reached through the years a cult status, garnering admiration from Star Trek fans, staff, and cast members.

He promoted a cult of ancestor worship, particularly among members of the SS, as a way to keep the race pure and provide immortality to the nation.

: In the Man-Kzin Wars novel Destiny's Forge, it is revealed that the Black Priests, a powerful cult within the Patriarchy whose members all have completely black pelts, have been responsible for the breeding program to isolate the telepath gene and preserve kzinrret subsapience.

* 2000 – More than 800 members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in what is considered to be a mass murder and suicide, orchestrated by leaders of the cult.

Hassan suggests that even the cult members manipulating the new converts may themselves be sincerely misled people.

They voice both a pair of camp counselors and members of a strange hooded male bonding cult.

" Its Statement of Principles begins: " We, the members of the Libertarian Party, challenge the cult of the omnipotent state and defend the rights of the individual.

The Shakers, on the other hand, impose chastity in the form of celibacy for all members, even forgoing procreation such as the case with the castration cult.

This cult was an ancient blood cult that passed on this genetic immunity to selective members to keep this antibody against the return of the comet ( which was set to happen in Season 3 ) so that they'd survive for being genetically select.

Everybody else on the planet would perish and the members of the cult would be there to rebuild civilization, and thus inherit the earth.

The other cult members deemed Sandeman a heretic and a threat, undermining their goals of rebuilding humanity in their own image.

In the USA the Kasama Project ( KP ), was initiated by former Revolutionary Communist Party, USA members critical of what they viewed as the dogmatism and cult of personality of RCP USA.

Returning with her great-aunt Zhobelia, her cousin Morag, enhanced maturity and a lot more information, Isis must decide what to tell the other members of the cult.

The 18th-century Russian Skoptzy ( скопцы ) sect was an example of a castration cult, where its members regarded castration as a way of renouncing the sins of the flesh.

Several members of the 20th century Heaven's Gate cult were found to have been castrated, apparently voluntarily and for the same reasons.

Jonestown, the Guyana location of the Jim Jones cult and Peoples Temple mass suicide, was thought to be a test site for MKUltra medical and mind control experiments after the official end of the program.

The heroon at Vergina in Greek Macedonia ( the ancient city of Aegae – Αἰγαί ) is thought to have been dedicated to the worship of the family of Alexander the Great and may have housed the cult statue of Philip.

Votive wheels called Rouelles, thought to correspond to the cult of Taranis.

Here the model is thought to be provided by the cult of the Magni Dei or Cabeiri preserved at Samothrace and worshipped particularly among sailing merchants.

The style of the doll was thought to resemble fashions and accessories worn by some segments of the gay community at the time, and " Earring Magic Ken " subsequently attained a cult following, becoming a collector's item.

The Manuscripts survived into historical times, protected by a secretive cult known as the Pnakotic Brotherhood, and are thought to have been translated into Greek in a version known as the Pnakotica.

It is thought that female deities are older than male ones in Mesopotamia and Tiamat may have begun as part of the cult of Nammu, a female principle of a watery creative force, with equally strong connections to the underworld, which predates the appearance of Ea-Enki.

Barques were important religious artifacts and since the deities were thought to travel in this fashion in the sky — the Milky Way was seen as a great waterway that was as important as the Nile on Earth — cult statues of the deities traveled by boats on water and ritual boats were carried about by the priests during festival ceremonies.

His thought, which popularized Pan-Turkism and Turanism, has been described as a " cult of nationalism and modernization ".

" Unlike other critics, Milne thought the new plot was refreshing: " With the possibilities of the characters the previous Halloween films well and truly exhausted, Season of the Witch turns more profitably to a marvellously ingenious Nigel Kneale tale of a toymaker and his fiendish plan to restore Halloween to its witch cult origins.

The Gandavyuha Sutra is thought to be the source of a cult of Vairocana that later gave rise to the Mahāvairocana-abhisaṃbodhi tantra, which in turn became one of two central texts in Shingon Buddhism and is included in the Tibetan canon as a carya class tantra.

Lovecraft's " The Call of Cthulhu ": " Of the cult, he said that he thought the centre lay amid the pathless desert of Arabia, where Irem, the City of Pillars, dreams hidden and untouched.

He closed the schools and universities and organized the students in the Red Guard, a thought police politically commissioned to discover, denounce, and persecute teachers, intellectuals, and government officials who might be counter-revolutionaries and secret bourgeois, all of which enforced the cult of personality of Chairman Mao.

While Changeling developed quite a devoted cult following, its themes and subject were often perceived as unnecessarily complex or too childish, and it was generally thought that the game was indecisively written ( i. e., is it a hopeful game about returning magic and imagination to a dull, banal world, or is it a depressed game of accepting the decay of all that is imaginative and colorful ) and White Wolf discontinued the game more than a year before the end of the World of Darkness line due to exceedingly low sales.

As distinguished from a temple, a shrine usually houses a particular relic or cult image, which is the object of worship or veneration, or is constructed to set apart a site which is thought to be particularly holy, as opposed to being placed for the convenience of worshippers.

Exit counseling, also termed strategic intervention therapy, cult intervention or thought reform consultation, is an intervention designed to persuade an individual to leave a group perceived to be a cult.

The Greek hero cults can be distinguished on the other hand from the Roman cult of dead emperors, because the hero was not thought of as having ascended to Olympus or become a god: he was beneath the earth, and his power purely local.

Still, the treatise certainly originated from his school, and in its systematic attempt to give a speculative justification of the polytheistic cult practices of the day, it marks a turning-point in the history of thought where Iamblichus stood.

On the other hand Greek heroes were distinct from the Roman cult of dead emperors, because the hero was not thought of as having ascended to Olympus or become a god: he was beneath the earth, and his power purely local.

Arinna was the major cult center of the Hittite sun goddess, ( thought to be Arinniti ) known as < sup > d </ sup > UTU < sup > URU </ sup > Arinna " sun goddess of Arinna ".

After that purge, Gheorghiu-Dej had begun promoting PMR activists who were perceived as more loyal to his own political views ; among them were Nicolae Ceauşescu, Gheorghe Stoica, Ghizela Vass, Grigore Preoteasa, Alexandru Bârlădeanu, Ion Gheorghe Maurer, Gheorghe Gaston Marin, Paul Niculescu-Mizil, and Gheorghe Rădulescu ; in parallel, citing Khrushchevite precedents, the PMR briefly reorganized its leadership on a plural basis ( 1954 – 1955 ), while Gheorghiu-Dej reshaped party doctrine to include ambiguous messages about Stalin's legacy ( insisting on the defunct Soviet's leader contribution to Marxist thought, official documents also deplored his personality cult and encouraged Stalinists to self-criticism ).

A very influential, yet extremely succinct writer, he has been a cult author for a number of renowned figures of contemporary literature and thought such as André Breton, Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Juarroz and Henry Miller, amongst others.

The Gelede ceremony may also take place at the funerals of cult members or in times of drought or other serious situations which are thought to have been brought about by malevolent witchcraft.