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Death cult may refer to: Funerary cult, a religious practice centered on veneration of the dead; Mortuary cult, a ceremonial and religious devotion to dead loved ones by the bereaved; Doomsday cult, a cult that believes in, and may attempt to bring about, an end-of-world prophecy
A mortuary cult (also called a funerary cult or death cult) is a ceremonial and religious form of a cult fostered over a certain duration of time, often lasting for generations or even dynasties. It concerns deceased peoples kept in the memories of their bereaved members, mostly family members or loyal servants.
The other cult leader was Sara Aldrete, a Matamoros native and an honors student and cheerleader at Texas Southmost College. [15] She was the girlfriend of Gilberto Sosa, a drug dealer linked to the Hernández clan to which Constanzo wanted an introduction. [16] [17] In 1987, she met Constanzo and eventually became the cult's main recruiter.
Osiris, depicted as a mummy, receives offerings on behalf of the dead in this illustration on papyrus from a Book of the Dead.. A funerary cult is a body of religious teaching and practice centered on the veneration of the dead, in which the living are thought to be able to confer benefits on the dead in the afterlife or to appease their otherwise wrathful ghosts.
Fascination with death has occurred throughout human history, characterized by obsessions with death and all things related to death and the afterlife. In past times, and present, people would form cults around death and figures.
Cult is a term often applied to new religious movements and other social groups which have unusual, ... "A history of anticult rhetoric". In Thomas & Graham-Hyde (2024).
One of the symbols of the OTS. The precise definition or classification as to what kind of movement the Solar Temple was by academics is inconsistent; scholars have labeled it variously as an esoteric new religious movement, a neo-Templar group, a Rosicrucian organization, a doomsday or suicide cult, a new magical movement, a magical-esoteric religion, or a secret society, among others. [1]
The Peoples Temple was labeled a "cult of death" by both Time and Newsweek magazines. [201] In February 1979, 98% of Americans polled said that they had heard of the tragedy. [202] George Gallup stated that "few events, in fact, in the entire history of the Gallup Poll have been known to such a high percentage of the U.S. public." [202]