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The Cult of Mithras is a little understood religion, and one that has many incorrect attributes raised against it, especially with regards similarities to Christianity. Here we go into the symbology and iconography, to decrypt the story of Mithras, so as to understand Mithraism and its links with Persia, Sol and Sol Invictus, and Saturn, and to understand why tauroctony is such a central symbol (the slaying of a bull).
Chapters
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0:00 Introduction
0:47 The Mystery of Mithras
3:18 How far did it spread?
4:45 Tauroctony, and why was it unusual
5:40 Explaining the Mithras slaying the Bull imagery
8:40 The ranks of Mithras and the Zodiac
11:25 The stories of Mithras, looking at the iconography
16:08 The feast of Mithras
19:08 The connections with Christianity and Jesus
22:55 So what was Mithraism, and why did it develop?
The Cult of Mithras is a little understood religion, and one that has many incorrect attributes raised against it, especially with regards similarities to Christianity. Here we go into the symbology and iconography, to decrypt the story of Mithras, so as to understand Mithraism and its links with Persia, Sol and Sol Invictus, and Saturn, and to understand why tauroctony is such a central symbol (the slaying of a bull).
Chapters
-----------------------------------
0:00 Introduction
0:47 The Mystery of Mithras
3:18 How far did it spread?
4:45 Tauroctony, and why was it unusual
5:40 Explaining the Mithras slaying the Bull imagery
8:40 The ranks of Mithras and the Zodiac
11:25 The stories of Mithras, looking at the iconography
16:08 The feast of Mithras
19:08 The connections with Christianity and Jesus
22:55 So what was Mithraism, and why did it develop?
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Who was Mithras?Mithraism, was a mystery religion centered on the god Mithras that was practised in the Roman Empire from about the 1st to the 4th century CE. The religion was inspired by Persian worship of the god Mithra (Proto-Indo-Iranian/Vedic Mitra), though the
Greek Mithras was linked to a new and distinctive imagery, and the level of continuity between Persian and Greco-Roman practice is debated. Worshippers of Mithras had a complex system of seven grades of initiation and communal ritual meals. Initiates called themselves syndexioi, those "united by the handshake". They met in underground temples, called mithraea, which survive in large numbers. The cult appears to have had its centre in Rome.
Who is GOD?In monotheism and henotheism, God is conceived as the Supreme Being and principal object of faith. The concept of God as described by theologians commonly includes the attributes of omniscience (infinite knowledge), omnipotence (unlimited power)
omnipresence (present everywhere), omnibenevolence (perfect goodness), divine simplicity, and eternal and necessary existence.
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<li>In theism, God is the creator and sustainer of the universe</li>
<li>In deism, God is the creator, but not the sustainer, of the universe</li>
<li>Monotheism is the belief in the existence of one God or in the oneness of God</li>
<li>In pantheism, God is the universe itself</li>
<li>In atheism, God is purported not to exist, while deemed unknown or unknowable within the context of agnosticism. </li>
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