| Over time, the process of restoration of traditional cults turned to whole-scale obliteration of all things associated with Akhenaten. |
| Based purely on a regulation about religious cults, some officials began to offer liberal interpretations. |
| Most joiners of cults respond to the leader's message first at an emotional level, then later at the physical and intellectual levels. |
| Many of these cults offered beliefs in the resurrection of the body after death. |
| For one thing, devotional cults were also popular within India, and the worship of the Hindu god Krishna antedates Christ by several centuries. |
| Communes, cults and self-created cultures are often perceived by the larger culture around them as crazy and even dangerous. |
