Other monuments discovered in the sanctuary include a bust of Sol kept in the sanctuary in a niche near the entrance, and a figure of Mithras petra generix, i. e. Mithras born of the rock.

Romans also called the religion Mysteries of Mithras or Mysteries of the Persians ; modern historians refer to it as Mithraism, or sometimes Roman Mithraism.

However, she also says that although recent studies have minimized the Iranizing aspects of the self-consciously Persian religion " at least in the form which it attained under the Roman empire ", the name Mithras is enough to show " that this aspect is of some importance ".

Mithraism was a mystery religion or school based on the worship of the god Mithras.

Cumont's thesis was re-examined in 1971, and Mithras is now believed to be a syncretic deity only slightly influenced by Persian religion.

It must be also noted that the Mithras mysteries, so closely connected with the Persian religion, are acquainted with this doctrine of the ascent of the soul through the planetary spheres ( Origen, Contra Celsum, vi.

First, " ancient religion was never exclusive "; pluralism was possible and " whether a man turned to philosophy or magic, to astrology or gnosis, to the rites of Osiris or of Mithras was inmaterial in one important aspect, that every one of them was deemed to supplement and not to supplant a man's ancestral religion "..

Adivasi beliefs vary by tribe, and are usually different from the historical Vedic religion, with its monistic underpinnings, Indo-European deities ( who are often cognates of ancient Iranian, Greek and Roman deities, e. g. Mitra / Mithra / Mithras ), lack of idol worship and lack of a concept of reincarnation.

Mithraism kept Sunday holy in honor of Mithras.

Understanding Mithraism has been made difficult by the near-total lack of written descriptions or scripture ; the teachings must be reconstructed from iconography found in mithraea ( a mithraeum was a cave or underground meeting place that often contained bas reliefs of Mithras, the zodiac and associated symbols ).

One scholar of Mithraism, David Ulansey, has interpreted Mithras ( Mithras Sol Invictus – the unconquerable sun ) as a second sun or star that is responsible for precession.

* David Ulansey, " The Cosmic Mysteries of Mithras " David Ulansey's zodiacal interpretation of Mithraism

According to E. A. Wallis Budge, " as a Pantheus, i. e. All-God, he appears on the amulets with the head of a cock ( Phœbus ) or of a lion ( Ra or Mithras ), the body of a man, and his legs are serpents which terminate in scorpions, types of the Agathodaimon.

Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave follows Geoffrey of Monmouth in calling him Aurelius Ambrosius and portrays him as the father of Merlin, the elder brother of Uther ( hence uncle of Arthur ), an initiate of Mithras, and generally admired by everyone except the Saxons.

The Bank's original home was in Walbrook in the City of London, where during the building's reconstruction in 1954 archaeologists found the remains of a Roman temple of Mithras ( Mithras was – rather fittingly – worshipped as being the God of Contracts ); the Mithraeum ruins are perhaps the most famous of all twentieth-century Roman discoveries in the City of London and can now be viewed by the public.

The name of the Persian god Mithra, adapted into Greek as Mithras, was linked to a new and distinctive imagery.

Worshippers of Mithras had a complex system of seven grades of initiation, with ritual meals.

Since the early 1970s, however, the dominant scholarship has noted dissimilarities between Persian Mithra-worship and the Roman Mithraic mysteries, and the mysteries of Mithras are now generally seen as a distinct product of the Roman Imperial religious world.

The name Mithras ( Latin, equivalent to Greek " Μίθρας ",) is a form of Mithra, the name of an Old Persian god.

( This point has been understood by Mithras scholars since the days of Franz Cumont.

Mithras is depicted looking to Sol Invictus as he slays the bull.

He observes that " Mithras — moreover, a Mithras who was identified with the Greek Sun god Helios " was among the gods of the syncretic Graeco-Armenian-Iranian royal cult at Nemrut founded by Antiochus I of Commagene in the mid 1st century BC.

Michael Speidel associates Mithras with the Sun god Orion.

At this period a certain Pallas devoted a monograph to Mithras, and a little later Euboulus wrote a History of Mithras, although both works are now lost.

It is difficult to trace when the cult of Mithras came to an end.

Clauss states that inscriptions show Mithras as one of the cults listed on inscriptions by Roman senators who had not converted to Christianity, as part of the " pagan revival " among the elite.

There is virtually no evidence for the continuance of the cult of Mithras into the 5th century.

Isis was still remembered in the middle ages as a pagan deity, but Mithras was already forgotten in late antiquity.

In this text the evil spirit Ahriman ( not Mithras ) slays the primordial creature Gavaevodata which is represented as a bovine.

John Dewey, a principal figure in this movement from the 1880s to 1904, set the tone for educational philosophy as well as concrete school reforms.

He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism.

The film was a success, and The New York Times Bosley Crowther singled its star out for praise: " It is Mr. Cagney's performance, controlled to the last detail, that gives life and strong, heroic stature to the principal figure in the film.

The leading figure behind the establishment of the society as a more organised body during this early period seems to have been Matthew Boulton: his home at Soho House in Handsworth was the principal venue for meetings, and in 1776 he is recorded as planning " to make many Motions to the Members respecting new Laws, and regulations, such as will tend to prevent the decline of a society which I hope will be lasting.

The seal's principal figure is Minerva-a symbol appropriate for an organization created in the midst of the American Revolution and dedicated to the cultivation of every art and science to " advance the interest, honour, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.

Controversial figure, Dr. James Barry, also arrived that year as principal medical officer ( 1836 – 1837 ).

In his own era, his writings on almost all the principal divisions of philosophy made Posidonius a renowned international figure throughout the Graeco-Roman world and he was widely cited by writers of his era, including Cicero, Livy, Plutarch, Strabo ( who called Posidonius " the most learned of all philosophers of my time "), Cleomedes, Seneca the Younger, Diodorus Siculus ( who used Posidonius as a source for his Bibliotheca historia Library "), and others.

Quintilian was attempting to modify the prevailing imperial style of oratory with his book, and Seneca was the principal figure in that style ’ s tradition.

# Daniel Mathias M. Bare ( 1834 – 1925 ), in various partnerships later shared with most of his sons-in-law, was the principal figure behind Roaring Spring's growth as a paper-mill town.

During 1964-67, while living on Manhattan's Lower East Side, he cofounded and was the principal figure in the New York Federation of Anarchists.

He was a principal figure in the Burlington Greens in 1986-90, an ecology group that ran candidates for city council on a program to create neighborhood democracy.

Called Aunt Fanny by Julian, Dick and Anne, she is married to Uncle Quentin, and is, through most of Blyton's Famous Five novels, the principal maternal figure in the lives of the children.

One of Ritter's arguments is that the principal figure in the second group is not Ali, as in the third group, but Hallaj, and that there is nothing in the explicit content of the second group to indicate a Shia allegiance of the author.

Turey is also the principal figure on an educational pamphlet published by El Nuevo Día Educador (" ENDE ").

In Rome he met his fellow Scot Gavin Hamilton, Pompeo Girolamo Batoni and Byers, an antique dealer whose advice proved particularly useful, especially the recommendation that " he should never copy an object from memory, but, from the principal figure to the minutest accessory, have it placed before him.

Lucas, his principal biographer, as " the most lovable figure in English literature ".

Although the tribal shaykh was the principal figure, each Maʻdān village ( which may have contained members of several different tribes ) would also follow the authority of the hereditary qalit " headman " of a tribe's particular section.

In addition to Myles Horton and others, a key figure during this period was John Beauchamp Thompson, a minister and educator who became one of the principal fund-raisers and speakers for the school.

In the early 1960s he became a member of the John Birch Society and a principal figure in the Western Goals Foundation.

Of all the composers of madrigals of the late 16th century, none was as central a figure as Claudio Monteverdi, who was often credited as the principal actor in the transition from Renaissance music to Baroque music.

He is also the principal figure of the 1970s and 80s mod revival and is often referred to as the Modfather.

The principal figure among them was the Ottawa chief Pontiac, renowned as an orator and political leader.

Reidy has been a controversial figure, and several teachers left the school in response to her becoming principal.

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