Re: Happy Christmas!

roger_pea...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hamish wrote:
> > > So take the birth of Mithras, the soldiers' (Romanish) god - in a cave
> > > on a winter's night; a star shone brightly and shepherds attended.
>
> Not a story known in antiquity, tho, but manufactured sometime in the
> early 20th century.
>
> > Mithras was born of Anahita, an immaculate virgin mother.
>
> So Wikipedia says. But Mithras was actually born of a ROCK:
>
> "...the rock-born Mithras" (John Lydus, De mensibus (On Months) 3.26,
> 62).
>
> "The unconquered one was born from a rock, if he is regarded as a god."
> (Commodian, Instructiones 1.13).

Also:

"And when those who record the mysteries of Mithras say that he was
begotten of a rock, and call the place where those who believe in him
are initiated a cave,..." (Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho 70)

'The pass-word of a second mystery cult of foreign origin is the "god
from the rock." ' (Firmicus Maternus, Error profanis religionis 5.2
etc)

http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/mithras/index.htm

All the best,

Roger Pearse

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