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Mithras emerging from the rock with torch and dagger beside a reclining Oceanus or Saturn.
Name: Dr. Hadi Valipour
Date of Birth: August 26, 1983
Place of Birth: Iran
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Eastern Religions, specializing in An
Traveler down the rabbit hole discovering links between Freemasonry and Mithraism
Two extracts from De abstinentia ab esu animalium by Porphyry on sacrifices and the importance of abstinence from animal food among Persian Magi.
Le culte de Mithra : Une religion iranienne qui se répand à Rome et dans son empire.
Latin writer, Platonic philosopher and rhetorician.
Of Isis and Osiris or Of the Ancient Religion and Philosophy of Egypt, Plutarch, The Moralia.
Deux extraits rapportés par Eznik de Goghp, Ve siècle, sur la création du Soleil selon les mythologies des mages.
PhD Thesis by Vittoria Canciani, coordinated by A. Mastrocinque. Verona, 14th April 2022.
Interpreting the Bas-relief of Mithras Tauroctonos from Osterburken in the Light of Porphyry’s Treatise, The Cave of the Nymphs.
Commentaries by Pseudo-Nonnus, also known as Nonnus the Abbot, on Gregory Nazianzen’s In Julianum Imperatorem Invectivae Duae and In Sancta Lumina.
It is well known that Mithras was born from a rock. However, less has been written about the father of the solar god, and especially about how he conceived him.
Translation and Introductory Essay by Robert Lamberton. Station Hill Press Barrytown, New York 1983.
