#Archaeologists in #Turkey have identified massive structures below a Roman-era castle. Includes a church and the best-preserved temple to #Mithras Fascinating.

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/01/1191263572/turkey-archaeology-zerzevan-castle-discoveries

#ZerzevanCastle #archaeology

Growing out Zoroastrianiam, Mithraism was, for a time, a major religion in the western Roman Empire and some believe it came close to becoming the dominant one (rather than Christianity). Others dispute this possibility.

Either way, it's unusual to find Mithras represented amongst the much more common Greek gods and Christian imagery on a Glasgow Building.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #mithras #glasgowarchitecture #sculpture #publicsculpture

There are many beautiful sculptures on Glasgow's buildings, but some of them are of quite unexpected subjects. It this case it's the Romano-Persian God Mithras on the former Sun Life Building on West George Street.

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#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #mithras #glasgowarchitecture #sculpture #publicsculpture

A song to #Mithras from a poem by #Kipling. https://youtu.be/vo-LqpnGyB0 #Pagan #Roman

The Mithraic Mysteries, also known as Mithraism, were a mystery cult in the Roman world where followers worshipped the Indo-Iranian deity Mithras (Akkadian for "contract") as the god of friendship, contract and order. https://www.worldhistory.org/Mithraic_Mysteries/ #History #Cult #MithraicMysteries #Mithras

Ancient Sanctuary Dedicated to God #Mithras Found in Spain

https://flip.it/_MoHj-

Archeologen hebben bij Villa del Mitra in #Cabra, #Spanje, een 1800 jaar oud #heiligdom blootgelegd, gewijd aan de god #Mithras. Ze vonden daarbij ook overblijfselen van #rituele banketten.
https://arkeonews.net/1800-year-old-sanctuary-to-mithras-discovered-in-spain/

"#Mithraism was a cult religion that became popular among the #RomanEmpire during the first century CE. #Mithras was a Romanized form of the #Iranian #god of the sun and justice #Mithra."

https://flip.it/CTj-nE

"Die drei heiligen Schlumpfmützenträger" 🤣
("phrygische Mützen"... trugen auch die Jakobiner in der Frz. Revolution, vor 2000 Jahren z.B. #Mithras, auch in #Fellbach (Bild)
- sehr aufschlussreich-spannender Block von @MissJonesTravel
https://www.miss-jones.de/2023/01/06/die-heiligen-drei-koenige-eine-kulturgeschichte-durch-die-zeiten/

Statue léontocéphale du #Mithraeum du musée archéologique de #Strasbourg

#archéologie #archeology #mitha #mithras
Photo is my own

#HappyNewYear to everyone 🥂

I hope you welcomed the new year with as much joy as #Sol Invictus and Mithras are displaying in this polychrome reproduction of a Mithraic banquet scene featuring #Mithras and the #SolInvictus banqueting on the hide of the slaughtered bull 🥳
Sol is raising his drinking horn, large rays of light emerging from his head in the background.
Prosit!

#DayOfHelios #Helios #GreekRomanArt @Chapps @antiquidons @histodons #polychromy

#Noel #isa #mithra #mithras #mithraizm
https://youtu.be/_vx9ZvVq5KA

The Mithraic Mysteries, also known as Mithraism, were a mystery cult in the Roman world where followers worshipped the Indo-Iranian deity Mithras (Akkadian for "contract") as the god of friendship, contract and order. The cult first appeared in the late 1st century CE and, at an extraordinary pace, spread from the Italian Peninsula and border regions across the whole of the Roman empire.
https://www.worldhistory.org/Mithraic_Mysteries/ #Cult #MithraicMysteries #Mithras

It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday!

Sol Invictus (#Helios) with a halo of sunlight and #Mithras (to his right) feast together.
Emperor Aurelian built a new temple for Sol, which was dedicated #OTD, 25 December 274 CE. The cult, like Mithraism, had been introduced from the East

Read more about mid-winter festivals (ancient & modern) in my article:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/32058351

#DayOfHelios #Sun #SolInvitus #AncMed #ReligioRomana #ancientRome #antiquidon @antiquidons

Yes #Christ was probably born around December 25th. No, it has nothing to do with #Mithras or #SolInvictus or any other of that nonsense.

https://www.catholic365.com/article/11926/yes-december-25th-is-the-biblical-date-of-christmas.html

This brings us back to solar imagery for the cult of Christ was often identified with the Sun among early Christian #Arabs; Christ had risen at sunrise and the resurrection was equated with the rising, the second coming was expected from the east, early churches often faced the east. The birth of #Mithras also occurred at this night. The winter solstice was a birth of light and expressed fertility, the rebirth of vegetation. The continual rebirth of deities makes Them immortal.

#Wintersonnenwende #Weihnachten: Auffällige Parallelen zwischen Christentum und den zwischen Iran und Britannien verbreiteten Kulten um #Mithras:
"Die Übernahme des Dies solis invicti (Geburtstag des Mithras) am 25. Dez. durch das Christentum und dessen Umdeutung zum Geburtstag Jesu, festgelegt durch einen Bischof von Rom im 4. Jhdt, ist weitgehend unbestritten..." https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraismus_und_Christentum

#Wintersonnenwende - Geburts- und Festtage alter orientalischer Sonnengötter, des "deus sol invictus", dann auch des im #Römer-Reich verbreiteten #Mithras-kult - also blieb der jungen Christenheit nichts anderes übrig, als diese Tage neu zu okkupieren? (s. Bildbeschreibung)

The Other Virgin Births in Antiquity
https://ehrmanblog.org/the-other-virgin-births-in-antiquity/

At the heart of all the various #pagan mysteries was a #myth of a godman who died and rose from the dead. This #divine figure was called by various names in the sundry pagan mysteries: #Osiris, #Dionysus, Attis, #Adonis, Baccus, #Mithras. But “fundamentally all these #godmen are the same #mythical being”

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#MERRY_CHRIST_MAS WORLD!

THE #TRUTH WILL #SET_US FREE!

THE #HIDDEN_HISTORY OF #CHRIST_MAS

~is a man called #MITHRA OR #MITHRAS had a special sacrament made up of #BREAD AND #WINE

#SOUND_FAMILIAR??~

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