The cults in the temples of the Marche

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The cults in the temples of the MarcheSo a few young girls and women began to disappear from Osimo, without knowing what happened to them, then handmaids and young men were recruited to vow to Mars or swear the ver sacrum as their ancestors had done before, which was an Umbrian-Picene practice of making adolescents who were born between the 1st of March and 1st of June, swear to be the eternal avengers of the enemy invaders as soon as they reached adulthood. The cult of Mithras, on the other hand, took place in underground vaults where the profane or uninvited were not allowed to attend. Basically, state and military officials performed the rites, which took place with a very specific ritual that eventually ended with the sacrifice of a Bull. However, the ultimate objective of the cult

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