Our Ancestors – culture, religion, conduct rules PREHISTORIC PRECHRISTIAN RELIGIONS IN DACIA Since the oldest times mankind tried to find out what are his or environment origins. The answers depending of ethic background and degree of spiritual evolution made possible the appearance of myths which tried to explain the phenomena and enigmatic events with a spatial or temporal nature which happened in man’s existence, in nature or universe, about human or cosmic destiny, things that before that were explained using the supernatural. It’s interesting to observe the fact that although the world civilizations were dispersed and they made contact later, the myths have commune themes like creation of the world or food. Gradually, the
myths gave birth to religions, especially through a religious ceremony followed by creation of specific institutions (church). Geto Dacians had a monotheistic religion. They worship Apollo (also known as Char-Ystos, the son of the sky) and after they moved to Orpheus, considered the founder of the first true religion (the first with a book) with a cosmogony and a theory of saving and anthropogenesis well formulated. Orpheus cult influence was manifested to the ritual and Christian iconography, in many paintings of the catacombs, Christ being depicted as Orpheus in the depiction of ‘the Good Shepherd.’ Christianity was precisely a great enemy for the mysteries because it has much affinity with these cults. Bibliography: Mircea Eliade, History of religious beliefs and