Quotes:Pastophori

H. P. Blavatsky

Pastophori. A certain class of candidates for initiation, those who bore in public processions (and also in the temples) the sacred coffin or funeral couch of the Sun‐gods — killed and resurrected, of Osiris, Tammuz (or Adonis), of Atys and others. The Christians adopted their coffin from the pagans of antiquity.

Source: H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary, art. Pastophori