1. Mystery and mystery writers and
novels

2. Mystery
Mysteries were secret cults.
People who wished to be part
of a group, had to prepare
some type of ceremony to be
accepted.

3. Mystery Stories
• Eleusis: He was an • Dionysiach: Originally
important figure in the
Eleusinian mystery. From he was a God of
the fifth century the ritual vegetation. The rites of
was held in Athens. The the cults were much
ritual was held in
September and admitted more barbaric than elusis.
all kinds of people except The devouring of an
criminals and foreigners. animal victim was
• Those elected were asked supposed to symbolize
about the food they ate,
and then, bathing in the the encarnation and
river and were covered in resurrection of the
pig's blood. The central divinity.When the victim
figure of this ritual is a was dead he was buried
statue of Iacchus.
with and amulet to protect
him from the dangers of
the underworld.

4. • Mithraic Mysteries: The
cult was of Persian
origin, Mithraic worship
because it was the
personification of light,
• Attis and Cybele: adored in that country.
Their mysteries were In the beginning this
focused on the rebirth of ritual was brought
the God Attis, who was to Asia by Magic influenced
by their religion.
also an character .
Then, it came to Rome
Communion was usually by Asian slaves who
attained with the bathing worked in the Roman
in blood (taurobolium). household.
Mithraic was essentially
the divinity of beneficence.

5. Mystery writers
• Dame Agatha Christie:
(15th September 1890 –
12th January 1976 ). She
was a writer of novels .
She also wrote romances
under the name Mary
Westmacott, but she was
most famous for her
mystery novels. She
wrote Murder in
Mesopotamia, Death on
the Nile and Crooked
House among others

6. • Simon Mario Reuel
Tolkien: (born 1959) is a
British barrister and
novelist. He studied at
the Dragon School in
Oxford and then in
Downside School. His
first novel, “The
Stepmother” was
published in 2002 and the
second “The Inheritance”
was published in 2010,
and his third, The King of
Diamonds, in 2011.

7. • Sarah Caudwell: Sara
Caudwell was the
pseudonym of Sarah
Cockburn (1939 – 2000),
she was a British lawyer
and a writer of detective
stories.
She was best known for
a series written between
1980 and 1999,centred
around the lives of a
group of young barristers
practicing in Lincoln’s Inn.
She wrote "The Sirens
Sang of Murder" (1989),
"The Oxford Book of
Detective Stories" (2000)
and " Women Before the
Bench" (2001), among
others.

8. The mystery of the Mona Lisa
• Mona Lisa: There are many
questions about the true
identity the woman of the
painting. In Italy, she is called
La Gioconda, which means
"the lighthearted woman" , the
French name is La Joconde
with a similar meaning.
This portrait has led to the
development of many
theories.
Many people today think she
is Lisa del Giocondo, the third
wife of Francesco del
Gicondo

9. • The portrait was painted
with a technique called
Sfumato , developed by
Da Vinci. This technique
means “smoky” or
“vanished” and leave its
interpretation to the
viewer’s imagination.
This one of the reasons
why the portrait is an
enigma to art enthusiasts
and perhaps the most
famous painting in the
world.

10. Mystery novels
• The mayas: The ancient
maya developed
mathematics systems
which allowed them to
create calendars. The
Maya traditions and
architecture illustrated
what the maya knew .
Their calendar marks the
seasons and they could
predict rainy and dry
seasons, and plan
agriculture activities and
ceremonies.

11. • The cycles of astronomy
and nature were recorded
by the maya on books and
in art .
Over seven million maya
lived in Mexico , Belize,
Guatemala, Honduras and
El Salvador.

12. WORK DONE FOR
Ana María Hagi
Josselyn García
Dawid K.
Carlos López