The Roman Cult of Mithras

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The Roman Cult of Mithras. The Roman deity Mithras is one of those ancient deities about whose myth and cult we know little. No description of his mysteries has come down to us, nor any certain idea of the cult myth. Most of what we know for certain we learn from monuments and archaeology. The purpose of these pages is to assist the general reader. The intention is primarily to make sources available, or accessible. The intention is to avoid promoting any particular opinion about Mithras or about Mithraic studies. Rather the intention is to provide as much primary data as possible, and enough information about the secondary data, to permit a reasonable person to form his own conclusions.

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• title_full: The Roman Cult of Mithras
• url: http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/mithras/display.php?page=main

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Roman, Rome, religion

languages

en

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subordinate resources

• The Roman Cult of Mithras
• 1. Summary of the cult myth
• 2. History
• 3. Iconography
• 3.1. The Mithraeum
• 3.2. The Tauroctony
• 3.3. The Banquet of the Sun
• 3.4. The lion-headed figure
• 4. Initiation into the mysteries of Mithras
• 5. Mithras and other gods
• 5.1. Phanes
• 5.2. Sol, Helios, Sol Invictus
• 5.3. Jupiter Dolichenus
• 5.4. Mithras and Christianity
• 6. Bibliography
• 6.1. Further reading
• 6.2. External links
• Home
• About these pages
• What's new?
• FAQ
• All literary sources
• Catalogue of monuments and images of Mithras
• History of Mithras
• Earliest records of Mithras
• Theories of origins
• Cautes and Cautopates
• Arimanius
• Aion
• Mithras and Phanes
• Mithras and Christianity
• Contact me
• Discoveries since 1960

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http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/mithras/display.php?page=main