Crossword clues for mithra
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mithra \Mi"thra\, Mithras \Mi"thras\, prop. n. [L., from Gr. ?.] The sun god of the ancient Persians; the god of light and truth.
Wikipedia
Mithra ( Miθra, Miça) is the Zoroastrian angelic Divinity ( yazata) of Covenant and Oath. In addition to being the Divinity of Contracts, Mithra is also a judicial figure, an all-seeing Protector of Truth, and the Guardian of Cattle, the Harvest and of The Waters.
The Romans attributed their Mithraic Mysteries (the Mystery Religion known as Mithraism) to Persian or Zoroastrian sources relating to Mithra. However, since the early 1970s the dominant scholarship has noted dissimilarities between Persian Mithra-worship and the Roman Mithraic mysteries.
Usage examples of "mithra".
They even accepted the fact that their own high deities Varuna, Mithra, Rudra were, to us, devils.
Then of course the mysteries of Isis, Mithra, Morpheus, Samothrace, and Eleusis, and the natural mysteries of the male sex, phallus, Wood of Life, Key of Science, Baphomet, mallet, then the natural mysteries of the female sex, Ceres, Cteis, Patera, Cybele, Astarte.
Some Brahmans are noted for their mastery of those vedas that deal with, let us say, the god Mithra or with a semidivine hero like Rama.
The Mithriac worship, which was so extensively propagated in the West, and in which Mithra and the sun were perpetually confounded, seems to have been formed from a fusion of Zoroastrianism and Chaldaism, or the Syrian worship of the sun.
The Mithriac worship, which was so extensively propagated in the West, and in which Mithra and the sun were perpetually confounded, seems to have been formed from a fusion of Zoroastrianism and Chaldaism, or the Syrian worship of the sun.
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.
Rome considered Christianity to be simply another bothersome Oriental Mystery Cult, like those of Mithra or Isis, then the most popular in the Empire.
Hence arose the misapprehension of some of the Greeks, who have said that Mithra was the summus deus of the Persians: he has a thousand ears and ten thousand eyes.
Hellenistic sculpture has popularised the scene of the immolation of a bull by Mithra, wearing a Phrygian cap, in one of those grottoes where the initiates gathered.
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.