Re: Happy Christmas!


<roger_pearse@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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

Hi Roger
We don't often discuss this sort of thing, but it is nice to have you aboard
when we do. Could you answer Charles comment about the 80 apocryphal gospels
as it is beyond me
--

Jim Webster.
Pat Gardiner, Five years raving about bent vets and still no result





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