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There was no real concept of an afterlife. Hades was like a piece of blotting paper. However mystery religions involved a personal contact with a god who gave keys to an afterlife to initiates. The earlier cults were anchored to a cult centre such as Samothrace - costly to get there, and costly to join. However some of them became mobile, and went to the customers.

Christianity was a mystery religion, and it became popular, along with the other mystery religions such as Isis and Mithraism, because its missionaries travelled rather than vice versa. And Christianity was available to all - rich or poor, free or slave. Of course it became popular - an afterlife for free in your own town just down the road.

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