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Thracian Mystery Religions

2021· article· en· W7024956350 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
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Bibliographic record

VenueOpenBU (Boston University) · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistorical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAncestorZoroastrianismMythologyMysticismSymbol (formal)Ancient GreekApolloMesopotamiaMeaning (existential)
DOInot available

Abstract

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The ancient Mystery mythological tradition links northern mainland Greece and the islands of Samothrace and Lemnos
\nwith Troy, Persia, Boeotian Thebes, Egypt, Crete, Etruscan Italy, the Peloponnesus, Athens, and the sanctuary of Demeter
\nand Persephone at the Attic village of Eleusis. Common to this wide geographical matrix is the role of a psychoactive
\nmushroom as a shamanic sacrament affording access to mystical experience. The Greek Homeric tradition knew of the
\nplant as the Homeric moly, [h]omomi, and the haoma sacrament of the Zoroastrian Magi priests and the warrior brotherhood
\nof Mithraism. This was expressed as a zoomorphic anthropomorphism in the figure of the Gorgon Queen Medusa,
\nand the bovine and taurine metaphors for the Amanita muscaria mushroom. The role of Perseus, as the father of
\nPerses, the eponymous ancestor of the Persians, and of Medea, as mother of Medos, the eponymous ancestor of the
\nPersian tribal group of the Medes, is central to assimilation of the Persian sacrament into Hellenic traditions. Medea is an
\nadjectival version of the same linguistic root that appears in the verbal participle Medusa and the noun Metis, signifying
\nfemale empowerment though expertise in medicinal and sacred drugs, a wisdom assumed by the goddess Athena as a
\ndeification of Sophia. This fungal sacrament figured in the various Mystery cults of the Anatolian Goddess and her male
\nattendant, and in the antithetical relationship of the gods Apollo and Dionysus.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.903
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.035
GPT teacher head0.189
Teacher spread0.154 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it