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Mithraism

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The Roman mystery of Mithras with cave, bull, and grades. Not Zoroastrian Mithra-cult under a Latin spelling, and not generic Roman religion.

Roman religion

  • Mithraism appears in Roman religion.

    Plutarch’s comparative cult speech names Mithraic/Persian rite neighbors known to the Roman world. A named Mithraism tradition in that treatise’s reception, not Zoroastrianism as a full Avestan dump and not a modern lodge dump.

    from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE

    appears in · sourced · culturally specific

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