10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MITHRAIST»
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1
Christianity: the First 400 Years: The Forging of a World Faith
Mithraist priests, we are told, called themselves “bishops” and wore mitres, and
had rings that believers would kiss; the head priest was called “pope”. They
believed that Mithras – the central deity of the religion – was killed and rose
again, and ...
2
History: Fiction or Science? Chronology 1
He wrote that “the oriental saviour deities are all brothers of Jesus Christ”([1371]
and [544],Volume 4,page 695). N. A. Koun also tells us that “the Mithraist oblation
is virtually similar to the Christian Eucharist... Christians, as well as Mithraists, ...
3
Women and the Roman City in the Latin West
Richard Gordon in a famous paper tried to go further and show that Porphyry
provided an explanation of the Mithraist position: For all ofthem, metempsychosis
is a crucial dogma, as becomes clear through the mysteries ofMithras. For they (
the ...
Emily Hemelrijk, Greg Woolf, 2013
“Officially, Mithraist. Really, Mahometan. Rare here in the west, but there's a large
part of the eastern lands where they worship the God of the Prophet. I used to
teach a portion of my class about the differences and similarities between Islam, ...
The secrecy of operations left an open door for the Mithraist influence and the
degradation of the image of the Messiah as planned by the Sadducees, evidence
of which appear in the various reports starting with the Resurrection, and up to
the ...
M. A. Raheem, Mervyn C. Charles, 2002
6
Theorizing Religions Past: Archaeology, History, and Cognition
Some things don't change: an equinox is an equinox is an equinox, whether for a
Mithraist or for an astronomer, ancient or modern. Secondly, the conceptual
isomorphism of esoteric and public cosmologies makes tracking the cognitive ...
Harvey Whitehouse, Luther H. Martin, 2004
7
Julian's Gods: Religion and Philosophy in the Thought and ...
63 It is not merely that the question of the time of Julian's initiation is deemed
unanswerable: there is no good reason to think he was ever a Mithraist at all.
This claim rests partly on sceptical interpretation of passages which I shall
discuss ...
Rowland B. E. Smith, 2013
8
Pagan Regeneration: A Study of Mystery Initiations in the ...
Rigorous fasts and abstinences were enjoined,2 and continence was
encouraged as a special virtue.3 More broadly, the resistance of all sensuality
was a mark of the Mithraist. Chiefly, however, the Mithraic life was characterized
by militant ...
Harold R Willoughby, 2008
9
Manifested in the Flesh
The mithraist used water versus the Christian wine. It might well have been
abominable to him to use anything else but pure water. For the mithraist the rite
was initiatory and, as far as we know, only performed once. The Christian must
have ...
10
Jewish Inscriptions of Western Europe: Volume 1, Italy ...
In view of the supposed Mithraist associations of the hypogeum entrance (see
Introduction), there is a slight possibility that Marcellus was a Mithraist pater
patrum rather than a Jewish one. The title of "patron of the city' was originally
bestowed ...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MITHRAIST»
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Mithraist is used in the context of the following news items.
Iraq's Yazidis: a vulnerable minority
Kurdish speakers, they follow a faith born in Mesopotamia more than 4,000 years ago and the Mithraist religion. As time went on they integrated ... «Aquila Style, Mar 15»
With every Hazara you kill, you are killing a piece of me too
I just look at it as God did not want Mithraist to survive as a religion, (Frankly, I do not know anything about that religion). Most of the problems ... «The Express Tribune, Feb 13»
Dreaming of a hot Christmas
... a natural time, and fixed on the day December 25 so that the popular Roman Saturnalia could build up to the Mithraist 'Day of the Sun' as a ... «New Scientist, Dec 08»
Iranian Christians Celebrate Christmas
... 25th of December is said to have originated in ancient Persia and Mithraism and has its roots in the Mithraist festival of Yalda, the celebration ... «Payvand, Dec 06»
