Orphic Cult

The Orphic Cult was a Chapter of Adepts that originated in Ancient Greece and was centered around the religious teachings of the ancient poet-teacher Orpheus. According to surviving records, the Orphic Cult taught that mankind was created in ancient times when the Titans consumed the infant god Dionysius. Zeus struck them with a thunderbolt and reduced them to ash, but humanity emerged from those ashes. 
Humanity was thus a product of both the material world of the Titans and also possessed a divine spark from Dionysius. 
The mainstay of Orphic beliefs was that humanity was doomed to repeated reincarnation and that escape from this endless cycle was only possible through initiation into the Cult's mysteries and teachings. Mainstream Orphic teaching held that those who successfully passed the Cult's initiation rituals would be united with the god Dionysius and would join him in the afterlife. 
The Orphic Cult continued for several centuries but appears to have died out sometime after the first millennium BCE. Some groups in the modern world claim to be direct, unbroken continuations of the original Orphic Cult, but such claims are nearly impossible to verify. 
What few groups do claim descent from the original Cult are usually small, scholarly gatherings within the Occult Underground or nativists within the Greek community of Adepts. 
=== References: ===
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphism_(religion)
-http://legacy.owensboro.kctcs.edu/crunyon/e261c/06-Plato/orphic_cult.htm
-https://classicalwisdom.com/culture/traditions/mysteries-orphics/
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