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The gay origins of the Hindi world for friend

The Sanskrit and Hindi word for friend is “Mitra”. It is also the Nepali word for it. The Sinhala word is ‘mitura’. The word’s etymology has surprising, stark and vivid homosexual connotations.

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Un sanctuaire dédié au dieu Mithra découvert en Corse

L’Inrap vient de mettre au jour un lieu de culte dédié au dieu Mithra sur le site de Mariana, à Lucciana, France.

Notitia

Mithra, Mihr, and Zarathushtra

How a rock relief in western Iran, carved during the time of the Sasanian Persian Empire (AD 224-651), has been re-imagined over the centuries.

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Biljanovac

Ancient site in Moesia Superior, north-east of Kumanovo, where the remains of a Mithraic sanctuary were discovered together with several marble reliefs, altars and cult objects.

Monumentum

Head in Phrygian cap from St. Wendel, possibly identical with CIMRM 993

A head in a Phrygian cap, possibly belonging to a torchbearer statue, formerly kept at St. Wendel in Belgica but possibly transported to the Provinzialmuseum in Trier, where it may be identical with CIMRM 993.

Monumentum

Altar of Hermes from St. Thomas am Zeiselberg

Small altar preserved in the castle of Freudenberg at St. Thomas am Zeiselberg, Noricum, recording a dedication to Hermes invicto Mitrae — an unusual conflation of Hermes and the invincible Mithras.

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Finds from Capua Mithraeum criptoporticus

Finds discovered near the crossing of the criptoporticus of the Mithraeum at Capua, including marble plate fragments, a tuff base, red lamps, and animal bones.

Monumentum

Smaller finds from Capua Mithraeum

Miscellaneous finds from the middle of the Mithraeum of Capua, including a terracotta antefix with centaurs, basins, marble bases, lamps with a Sol head, and coins of M. Aurelius and Constantine.

Monumentum

Fresco fragment from Capua

Fresco fragment from the initiation sequence of the Mithraeum of Capua, of which only the heads and parts of the white tunica of two figures remain visible.

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Fresco fragment from Capua

Two scenes from the initiation sequence of the Mithraeum of Capua, now indistinguishable.

Monumentum

Fresco fragment from Capua

Fresco showing a mystagogus pressing down the shoulders of a kneeling myste, attended by a third figure in Phrygian cap, from the initiation sequence of the Mithraeum of Capua.

Monumentum

Fresco fragment from Capua

Fresco showing two persons standing behind each other, from the initiation sequence of the Mithraeum of Capua.

Monumentum

Fresco fragment from Capua

Fresco showing a standing figure in a small cloak approached by two other persons, from the initiation sequence of the Mithraeum of Capua.

Monumentum

Fresco fragment from Capua

Badly damaged fresco fragment showing a person in red attire in a kneeling position, from the initiation sequence of the Mithraeum of Capua.

Monumentum

Fresco of Cautopates from Capua

Fresco depicting Cautopates in Eastern attire between two laurels, cross-legged, pointing his torch downwards over a burning altar, from the Mithraeum of Capua.

Monumentum

Head from Capua

Head in Phrygian cap with a sorrowful expression, used as a protome in the Amphitheatre of Capua and interpreted as a head of Mithras.

Monumentum

Altar from Novaria by Aelius Secundinus

The v in this small altar found in Novaria has been interpreted by some commentators as qualifying Mithras as victorious.

Monumentum

Altar by Flavius Lucilianus from Aveia

This altar for the completion of a temple to Sol Invictus by Flavius Lucilianus was found in Fossa, Italy.

Monumentum

Initiation frescoes from the Barberini Mithraeum

Continuation of the frescoes depicting an initiation into the Mithras cult, where two attendants present a repast to Mithras and Sol.

Monumentum

Saul depicted as Mithras Tauroctonos

Saul cutting the oxen to pieces poses as Mithras Tauroctonos in this painting, which adorns the mantelpiece of Henry II’s bedroom at the Château d’Écouen near Paris.

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