- ORPHISM
- a Greek MYSTERY RELIGION centered on the GOD ORPHEUS and associated with the ELEUSIAN MYSTERIES which featured REBIRTH as one of its central BELIEFS.
Concise dictionary of Religion. 2012.
ORPHISM
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