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We sacrifice to Mithra, The Lord of all countries, Whom Ahura Mazda created the most glorious, Of the Supernatural Yazads. So may there come to us for Aid, Both Mithra and Ahura, the Two Exalted Ones,"(Khwarshed Niyayesh 6-7), [6] "I shall sacrifice to his mace, well-aimed against the Skulls of the Daevas" (Khwarshed Niyayesh 15). [6]
The term "Mithraism" is a modern convention. Writers of the Roman era referred to it by phrases such as "Mithraic mysteries", "mysteries of Mithras" or "mysteries of the Persians".
Mitra (Proto-Indo-Iranian: *mitrás) is the name of an Indo-Iranian divinity that predates the Rigvedic Mitrá and Avestan Mithra.. The names, and some characteristics, of these established deities subsequently influenced other figures:
Mithras stock epithet is Sol Invictus, "invincible sun".However, Mithras is distinct from both deities known as Sol Invictus, and they are separate entities on Mithraic statuary and artwork such as the tauroctony, hunting scenes, and banquet scenes, in which Mithras dines with Sol. [10] Other scenes feature Mithras ascending behind Sol in the latter's chariot, the deities shaking hands and the ...
A Mithraeum found in the ruins of Ostia Antica, Italy Mithraeum in Jajce renowned as one of the best preserved in-situ in Europe How a modern history theme park imagines a Mithraeum: Museum Orientalis in the Netherlands Finds from a Mithraeum in Stockstadt, Germany A Mithraeum found in the German city of Saarbrücken
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 name Mithras (Latin, equivalent to Greek "Μίθρας", [1]) is a form of Mithra, the name of an Iranian god, [2] a point acknowledged by Mithras scholars since the days of Franz Cumont. [3] The Greek form of the name appears in Xenophon's biography of Cyrus, the Cyropaedia, [4] a work written in the fourth century BC.
In Mithraic images, Mithras either represents the sun, or is a close friend of the sun god Helios or Sol Invictus (Latin: the invincible sun) with whom Mithras dines. So attendants Cautes and Cautopates are supposed to represent the stations of sunrise and sunset respectively, or perhaps the spring and autumn equinoxes, or equivalently the ascending (spring) and descending (autumnal) nodes of ...