Nominations for favorite cult

Mithras?

Ahahah! Good call, Kate. It was either that or Demeter & Kore. I'll go with Mithras.

but only one rocked the nike cortez

I do like a good mystery cult of the Roman era. The Eleusinian cult you mention were an interesting one, as well.

Can we do a thread about best Xian heresy next? Because there are so many interesting options, Cathars, Hussites, Anabaptists, Gnostics, etc. And the Manicheans! They had some interesting beliefs.

do it up. i know so little about this stuff, totally down to get schooled though

Pythagoreans

Good choice! Maths Cult of the Ancients! Their irrational refusal to eat beans! Excellent!

Have to go with Mithraism for its being orig Persion and rooted in Zoroastrianism, and all its weird branches of path on its way to being a Roman warrior cult in Britain. More later, busy sacrificing ox.

my dad told me once he visited this cult type situation in vermont in the 80s where the leader had been a college basketball player and he taught his students through basketball like he would stop a game in the middle and point out how someones neurosis was manifesting in the game - of course the guy was much better at basketball than everyone else and it wasnt really fair - so i vote for the basketball cult

i know someone who was in this computer cult http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Lenz

I don't know if this is a cult or a heresy, but my favorite is definitely Benandanti after reading Carlos Ginzburg.

Cargo cults! I think they're one of the weirdest and funkiest cults ever.