Nikolay Zhivkov
About Orpheus, Orphism, and Thracian State Arrangement
Summary:
Orphism is presented as a moral and religious system associated with belief in immortality. Leading role in it played the idea of improving the soul, ie the zeal of believers to reach immortality through participation in sermons, hymns and cult-ritual practices. They are grouped in two societies - folks and aristocratic. Through them they participate in the life of state.