Re: Happy Christmas!

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).

All the best,

Roger Pearse

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