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Events[]
509 BCE[]
- Foundation of the Roman Republic.[1]
503 BCE[]
- The All-Consuming Fire falls prey to demons masquerading as Vedic gods. The impostors claim that it's all well and good to escape the suffering of the Wheel by meditation, but the compassionate thing to do is to annihilate the Wheel altogether.[2]
501 BCE[]
- The first recorded biomechanism is a hand-crafted for Sun Tzu.[3]
500 BCE[]
- 900 BCE-500 BCE: The Etruscan civilization.[4]
- 800 BCE - 500 BCE: Growth of Greek city-states (e.g. Athens). Expansion of Congregational activities into Europe.[1]
- 500 BCE: The Fir Bolg attempt to invade Ireland.[5] The Night of Fana unites a disparate group of Akashics and Ecstatics into a new group of magi known as the Ahl-i-Batin.[6]
- 500 BCE-384 BCE: The Years of the Shroud, a period of the Himalayan Wars unable to be pierced by temporal scrying magic.[7]
- 500 BCE - 300s AD: Mystery cults of the Classical World, such as the Orphic and Eleusinian mysteries, the cults of Isis and Mithraism, flourish throughout this period.[8]
- The first Revenants are observed.[9]
- Pythagoras dies. The Greek cult of Hermes is at its height in Athens; Socrates and most other Athenians are familiar with its ideas, and Plato is probably an initiate. Although he never Awakens, Plato's writings are very influential to the forming of the Greek magickal praxis. The cult of Hermes begins spreading to Rome, where Hermes is known as Mercury.[10][11][12]
- Roman historian Hegesistatus escapes from leg manacles by cutting off his foot; later, he crafts a wooden replacement.[13][14]
- Hindu concepts of the soul, karma and dharma are radically re-examined by spiritual teacher Siddhartha Guatama. He becomes known as the Buddha.[15]
- Persia becomes the centre of the vast Achaemenid Empire which stretches from southeast Europe and north Africa in the west to India in the east, and from the Caucasus mountains and the Syr Darya river in the north to the Gulf of Oman in the south. The Taftâni are hailed as great mystics, warriors, and purveyors of Truth.[16]
- The Sundering begins.[17]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 MTAs: Celestial Chorus Tradition Book, p. 15
- ↑ MTAs: Tradition Book: Euthanatos, p. 21
- ↑ MTAs: Technocracy: Iteration X, p. 49
- ↑ MTAs: Mage: The Ascension Second Edition, p. 282
- ↑ DA: Dark Ages: British Isles, p. 50
- ↑ MTAs: Mage Storytellers Companion, p. 8
- ↑ MTAs: Tradition Book: Euthanatos, p. 20
- ↑ MTAs: Halls of the Arcanum, p. 24
- ↑ VTM: Ghouls & Revenants, p. 85
- ↑ ArM: The Order of Hermes (book), p. 122
- ↑ MTAs: Order of Hermes Tradition Book, p. 11
- ↑ MTAs: Lore of the Traditions, p. 104
- ↑ MTAs: Technocracy: Iteration X, p. 29
- ↑ MTAs: Convention Book: Iteration X, p. 58
- ↑ MTAs: Dragons of the East, p. 27
- ↑ MTAs: Lost Paths: Ahl-i-Batin & Taftâni, p. 61
- ↑ CTD: Isle of the Mighty, p. 10
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