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The "Mithras Liturgy" is a text from the Great Magical Papyrus of Paris, part of the Greek Magical Papyri, [1] numbered PGM IV.475–829. [2]The modern name by which the text is known originated in 1903 with Albrecht Dieterich, its first translator, [3] [4] based on the invocation of Helios Mithras (Ἥλιοϲ Μίθραϲ) as the god who will provide the initiate with a revelation of ...
The Mithras Liturgy combines them as Helios-Mithras, who is said to have revealed the secrets of immortality to the magician who wrote the text. Some of the texts describe Helios-Mithras navigating the Sun's path not in a chariot but in a boat, an apparent identification with the Egyptian sun god Ra .
Liturgy of the Hours (4 C, 79 P) I. Illuminated books of hours (1 C, 61 P, 1 F) Pages in category "Canonical hours" ... Liber Resh vel Helios; S. Sentence (liturgy) W.
On the back of the thrones there is an inscription in Greek, which includes the compound name Apollo-Mithras-Helios in the genitive case (Ἀπόλλωνος Μίθρου Ἡλίου). [75] Vermaseren also reports about a Mithras cult in Fayum in the 3rd century BCE [ 39 ] (p 467) R.D. Barnett has argued that the royal seal of King Saussatar of ...
In later antiquity, the Greek name of Mithras (Μίθραϲ) occurs in the text known as the Mithras Liturgy, part of the Paris Great Magical Papyrus (Paris Bibliothèque Nationale Suppl. gr. 574); here Mithras is given the epithet "the great god", and is identified with the sun god Helios.
For instance, Zeus was the sky-god, sending thunder and lightning, Poseidon ruled over the sea and earthquakes, Hades projected his remarkable power throughout the realms of death and the Underworld, and Helios controlled the sun. Other deities ruled over abstract concepts; for instance Aphrodite controlled love. All significant deities were ...
The Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom is the most celebrated divine liturgy in the Byzantine Rite. It is named after its core part, the anaphora attributed to Saint John Chrysostom , Archbishop of Constantinople in the 5th century.
Old Testament Trinity icon by Andrei Rublev, c. 1400 (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow). The Trisagion (Greek: Τρισάγιον; 'Thrice Holy'), sometimes called by its incipit Agios O Theos, [1] is a standard hymn of the Divine Liturgy in most of the Eastern Orthodox, Western Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches.