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David Ulansey - The Cosmic Mysteries of Mithras

Public lecture by David Ulansey on Mithraism, based on his book The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World.
 
 
25 Aug 2021
Video of a public lecture by David Ulansey on Mithraism, based on his book The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World, Oxford University Press.

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    Herman Johnson

    I’m not convinced that Taurus is being killed
    By Mithras. It’s my opinion that Mithras is trying to save Taurus from bleeding out. Please notice that Mithras is holding up the head of the bull helping him breath . Further more Mithras is holding a small dagger above the shoulder on Taurus where as a much more suitable sword is mounted on the wall above Taurus.I contend that Mithras is cauterizing a wounded to make it stop bleeding. He is watching the sky to see if the Taurid meteor shower has stopped.

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    David Price

    Fascinating and groundbreaking work on Mithraism! It is still not clear how much the Emesa syncretists knew from ancient empires. If Hipparchus could work out the precession of the equinoxes from observation and records, why could not earlier civilisations, especially with centuries of star records? Julia Domna is recorded as introducing an Assyrian-style wig. She visited Babylonia. And Perseus, the exile from Persia who killed an Assyrian, relates to the Age of Taurus. Julia opened the Mithraeum in Rome and her coins bear the titles: Augusta, Diana Lucifera, the lightbringer. The imperial couple also came to Britain with its megalithic circles associated with planetary calendars. The aim of the syncretists was to bring all religions under the central control of the Roman Pontifex Maximus, thus securing unitary powers in the political field as well.

 

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