For example the goddess Ceres taught spiritual, technological and agricultural (cereal) practices.
She might be still around. She seemed to turn up a couple of years ago when I was visiting the Tamar Valley in Tasmania - being interested in the friend I was visiting.
In Masonry we find spiritual techniques e.g. means to access the temple in the heavens. We find technology e.g. equipment for establishing weights and measures (see Civilisation One). And we find entries to the hidden mysteries of nature and science (e.g. control of elementals) that are applicable to agriculture
Here we have Mithras the lion-headed initiator who presumably has a lion's grip. The square he is holding is actually a key - to heaven.
Mithras has 2 assistants (wardens) one on the right holding a torch up and the one on the left downwards. The are called Cautes and Cautopates - together they are cautious
At the foot of the first image above are symbols of the Ida, Pingala and Sushumna energies and also the pineal gland (pine cone) better known as the Third or All Seeing Eye.
