Sun god

Usage examples of mithras.

The limp disappeared, he slept well and put on flesh, an d I learned some time later from one of his chamberers that, although the Ki ng was never again the Bull of Mithras that his soldiers had laughed over an d admired, and though he fathered no more children, he took certain satisfac tions in his bed, and the unpredictable violences of his temper declined.

His instinct was here so sure that, with reckless violence to the truth, he put the ideas which lent fascination to every sort of Chandala religion into the mouth of the “Saviour” as his own inventions, and not only into the mouth--he made out of him something that even a priest of Mithras could understand.

Jupiter and Mithras were far from here, and none saw Iesu, and Syagrius was consummately busy.

When Orthodox Christianity had split from Rome, it had reached back to more ancient pagan elements--especially the cult of Mithras, a mystery cult exported from Persia across the Roman Empire, in which the sun had been the dominant cosmic force.

The selections were eclectic, books on Buddhism, on the mystery cult of Mithras, even a strange book (a hybrid itself) mixing genetics, cellular biology, and Hindu mysticism.

While believing in no god she fearlessly and with ironic condescension receives all gods into her courts: from faraway fire-worshiping Persia, Mithras the sun-faced son of Ahuramazda, mounted on the sacred bull which is soon to die.

Now, the apse was empty of Mithras slaying the sacred bull and Mary holding the infant Christ.