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| | Mithraism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Mithra was worshiped as a god by proto aryan Indo-Iranians and Mithraism is generally considered to be of Persian origins, specifically an outgrowth of Zoroastrian culture, though not of Zoroaster's teachings. | | | It was based on worship of the god Mithras and derives from the Persian and Indic god Mithra and other Zoroastrian deities. | | | At the left is Mithra depicted as a priest, wearing a crown of sun-rays, holding a priest's barsam, and standing on a sacred lotus. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraism
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| | Mithra (or Mithras) was the ancient Indian and Persian god of law and justice, a supporter of Ahura Mazda, the great god of order and light. | | | Mithraism died out in the 4th century, largely because of the spread of Christianity; Christians saw Mithraism as a devilish imitation of what they believed to be the one true religion, and they frequently broke into and destroyed Mithraic temples. | | | The god Mithra was worshipped in Hinduism, Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism, but it is as a Roman cult that Mithraism is most well known. |
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http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/europe/mithraism.html
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| | The Babylonians also incorporated their belief in destiny into the Mithraic worship of Zurvan, the Persian god of infinite time and father of the gods Ahura-Mazda and Ahriman. | | | Mithraism began in Persia where originally a multitude of gods were worshipped. | | | According to Persian mythology, Mithras was born of a virgin given the title 'Mother of God'. |
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http://www.crystalinks.com/mithra.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Mithraism |
| | Mithraism was emphatically a soldier religion: Mithra, its hero, was especially a divinity of fidelity, manliness, and bravery; the stress it laid on good fellowship and brotherliness, its exclusion of women, and the secret bond amongst its members have suggested the idea that Mithraism was Masonry amongst the Roman soldiery. | | | A Mithraic community was not merely a religious congregation; it was a social and legal body with its decemprimi, magistri, curatores, defensores, and patroni. | | | Mithraism had a Eucharist, but the idea of a sacred banquet is as old as the human race and existed at all ages and amongst all peoples. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10402a.htm
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| | MITHRAISM - (CAIS) © |
| | Gershevitch, The Avestan Hymn to Mithra, Cambridge, 1959. | | | Mithraism, then, was a religion of small communities. | | | The "Mysteries of Mithras," to return to their ancient name, were one of a number of ancient religious "mysteries." A "mystery," in Greek, is something into which one is initiated. |
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http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Religions/iranian/Mithraism/mithraism.htm
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| | Ceisiwr Serith's Homepage - Mithraism Main Page |
| | Mithras is the name of a Zoroastrian "god," Mithras and his torchbearers are dressed like Persians, "Cautes" and "Cautopates" are both likely Persian names, and the Persian words "nama," "hail," and "nabarzes," probably "unconquered," appear in some Mithraic inscriptions. | | | Cumont believed that Mithraism must be interpreted in light of Zoroastrianism, the religion of Persia. | | | After the sacrifice, the sun raises Mithras to heaven, greets him with a handshake, crowns him, and eats a feast with him. |
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http://www.ceisiwrserith.com/mith/whatismith.htm
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| | In Iranian religion Mithra began as a subordinate deity. | | | As Ulansey notes, "[O]wing to the obscurity of Mithraic iconography and the general absence of any ancient explanations of its meaning, the internal aspects of Mithraism (i.e., the beliefs and teachings of the cult) have resisted the attempts of scholars to decipher their secrets." Second, Roman Mithraism, was an evolving system. | | | Cumont calls attention to two legends, one that the Iranian Mithra (the supposed source of the Roman Mithras) was conceived from an incestuous relationship between Ahura-Mazda and his mother and another that has him the son of a "common mortal." In either event a virgin birth is ruled out. |
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http://www.churchofthelamb.com/SMeyer/mithraism.htm
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| | Of the many gods to regain status in Iranian religious life was Mithra. | | | The Chaldaeans had long been recognized for that astrology and magickal practices and it is evident that Zoroastrianism, particularly in the case of the divinity Mithra, borrowed heavily from their pagan mysteries. | | | He is, as such, given the position of warrior against the darkness leading the forces of light against the forces of dark in the name of Ahura as is seen in the hymns of the Avesta. |
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http://www.mithraism.erudition.net/origins/pagan.htm
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| | Mithraism. Not an influence on Christianity |
| | As for Mithras ascending to heaven, this is a misreading of the text. | | | Mithra was born of a virgin on December 25th in a cave, and his birth was attended by shepherds. | | | It is not Mithra, but the gods (e.g. |
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http://tektonics.org/copycat/mithra.html
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| | Pagan Regeneration: Chapter VI: Death and New Birth in Mithraism |
| | Mithra was an unfailing help to mortals in their struggles, the protector of holiness, the defender of truth, and the intrepid antagonist of all wickedness. | | | Mithraic sacraments were both the symbols and the effective causes of this spiritual regeneration. | | | This study of Mithraism has shown that the cult of the Iranian god held out to its devotees the hope of a blessed immortality and the assurance of victory in the struggle of life, on the basis of certain initiatory rites which were viewed as marking the beginning of a new kind of existence. |
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http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/pr/pr08.htm
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| | Mithra was also associated with the sun, and his followers marked Sunday as his day of worship, they called it the Lord's Day. | | | According to Persian legends, Mithra was born of a rock and a virgin mother called the "Mother of God" and was first attended by shepherds. | | | With all the similarities of Mithra to Christ, there are some that say that Christianity came from Mithraism but that is just nonsense. |
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http://latter-rain.com/ltrain/mith.htm
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| | The Pre-Zoroastrian Indo-Iranian Mithra |
| | Much of the pre-Zoroastrian Iranian Mithra in terms of how he was worshipped by the Iranians is little known. | | | From the etymology of the name Mitra/Mithra it can hypothesized that the god was one of contracts, perhaps, a spiritual moral contract as we find the fussion of Mitra and Varuna into Mitra-Varuna as a deity of moral integrity. | | | Even with this west-east division, the Indian and Iranian groups still maintained a close connexion as is evinced by the similarity of Sanskrit with Old Persian and Avestan; only later did the Iranian and Indian tongues sharply diverge. |
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http://www.mithraism.erudition.net/origins/indo-ira.htm
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| | The worshippers of Mithras were divided into seven grades, each marking a stage of knowledge in the cult's mysteries. | | | One of the many mystery cults that the Romans introduced from the east, Mithraism first appealed to slaves and freedmen but with Mithras's title Invictus, the cult's emphasis on truth, honour and courage, and its demand for discipline soon led to Mithras becoming a god of soldiers and traders. | | | 'Sacred to the Invincible God Mithras, Aulus Cluentius Habitus, prefect of the First Cohort of Batavians, of the Ultinian voting tribe, from Colonia Septima Aurelia Larinum, willingly and derservedly fulfilled his vow.' |
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http://museums.ncl.ac.uk/archive/mithras/text.htm
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| | Mithra religion is much older and the cult of Mithra in Rome not necessarily identical to the old Mithra religion. | | | The article in the encyclopedia analyses Avesta and the description of Mithra in there. | | | "Of late the researches of Cumont have brought it (Mithraism) into prominence mainly because of its supposed similarity to Christianity." |
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http://www.geocities.com/raqta24/RQO.htm
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| | Ceisiwr Serith's Homepage - Mithraism Main Page |
| | These sites imply, and sometimes say outright, that Christianity was influenced heavily by Mithraism, even to the point of saying that all that is supposedly uniquely Christian was actually taken from Mithraism. | | | Mithraism was a mystery cult in the Roman empire, and is a particular fascination of mine. |
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http://www.ceisiwrserith.com/mith
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