Mithra : Zoroastrian war-god born of a rock & armed at birth with a knife & a torch; he later became known as the creator of life, the giver of rain, & sunlight.
... therefore come to our assistance, O exalted Mithra and Ahura!..." From Hale's comment we learn that the phrase in the original is mithra ahura, along with the Avestan for "exalted", occurring all as a vocative dual. He adds: "Apparently this phrase refers to Mithra and Ahura Mazdā. Ahura- occurs in the dual in the Avesta only in conjunction with mithra. This is very significant because the only... in the Vedas and Mithra and Ahura Mazda in the Avesta offers strong support for those who argue that Varuṇa and Ahura Mazda derive from the same Indo-Iranian god." Again, in Yast 10.145 500 we read: "(Standing) by the Barsman plant we worship Mithra and Ahura - the two exalted owners of Truth that are removed from danger...." Hale notes: "Here again the dual compound mithra ahura occurs." Yasna... Yasna l.11 501 gives us: "I dedicate (and) carry out (the prayer) for the Ahura and Mithra - exalted, free from danger, truth-possessing - and for the sun - possessing fast horses, eye of Ahura Mazdā." Hale observes: "Here again ahura- and mithra- appear with dual endings and thus form a dvandva compound. The other phrase which calls the sun the eye of Ahura Mazda is interesting because the ...
... force in being? ESARHADDON From of old It is. Page 287 ACHAB Then why not call it Baal? ESARHADDON For me I care not what 'tis called, Mithra or God. You call it Baal, Perizade says 'Tis Ormuzd, Mithra and the glorious Sun. I say 'tis force. ACHAB Then wherefore strive to change Assyria's law, o'erthrow the cult of Baal? ESARHADDON I do not, for it crumbles... labour, gold, Soldiers and strength. This Mithra's worship is. Come, priest, you are incredulous yourself, But guard your trade, so do I mine, so all. Will it be loss to you, if it be said Baal and Mithra, these are one, but Baal Changes and grows more mild and merciful, A friend to men? Or if instead of blood's Unprofitable revenue we give Offerings of price, and heaps of captive gold In place... will of Baal while they slash. You are subtle, if you choose. The head of all Assyria's state ecclesiastical, Assured a twentieth of my revenues, And right of all the offerings votaries heap On Mithra, that's promotion more than any Onan can give, the sullen silent slave, Or Ikbal Sufa with his politic brain. ACHAB Why that? ESARHADDON You think I do not know! I see Each motion of ...
... Mithraism — the cult of the Iranian Sun-god Mithra akin to the Vedic Mitra — grew a keen rival to early Christianity. Mithraism spread Fire-worship wherever it went. And by its dynamic character it appealed to the Romans. The Roman soldiers took Mithra as their deity and carried his cult to all the countries subjugated by the legionaries. Recently a temple of Mithra was unearthed in the heart of London! ...
... 18, 19, 21, 22, 23 Megasthenes, 86, 103 Mehi, 38 Mesopotamia, 32, 35, 54, 68, 73, 74 Mirza, Hormazdyer K., 83 Mitanni, 2, 31, 32, 84, 85, 88 Mithra, Mithro, 86 "Mithra-Ahura", 34 "Mitra-Asura", 34 "Mitra-Varuṇa", 34 Mitra, 34, 86 Moghul Ghundai, 4 Mohenjo-dāro, 6, 49, 61, 63, 70, 71, 95-7 Mongoloid races, 118 ...
... the specialist in matters Persian, writes of Kushāna coins "where Hellenistic or Roman deities, such as Heracles, Hephaestos, Serapis, are pictured as well as Irānian gods and goddesses such as Mithra, Ardoxsho, Atar and Verethragna". Another expert, J. Duchesne-Guillemin, 3 dealing with the same subject, lists "Ardoxsho" strictly among the Irānian divinities that came to the fore with the general... general Irānianization of coin-legends in the later part of Kanishka's rule. At another place, 4 this expert informs us: "Some have sought to draw important conclusions from what appears to be a female Mithra [on a Kushāna coin]. The name is certain. But as the type is exactly the same as that of Ardoxsho, a woman carrying a cornucopia, Cumont concluded this as an engraver's mistake. However, Bussagli ...
... 214, 272, 276, 278 Misra, Haripriya, 274 Mitanni documents (see also Kikkuli's manual), 210, 214, 280-81 Mitannians, 179, 210, 212, 213, 281, 282, 313 Mithra, 271, 403 Mithra-Ahura, 419 Mitra, 301, 386, 392, 395, 403-5, 409 Mitra-Varuṇa, 213, 280, 360, 368, 371, 387, 392, 393, 401-3, 405, 415, 419 mogila, 322 Mohenjo-dāro, 160 ...
... corresponding to the "Mitra-Varuṇa" of the Rigveda and of the Mitanni document, nor even a god Varuṇa. So we cannot reconstruct a similar Indo-Irānian or what Thieme terms Proto-Aryan form. The Avesta has "Mithra-Ahura". As the Rigveda also has "Asura" as counterpart of the Avestan "Ahura" and uses it at times together with "Mitra" (and "Varuṇa"), the Proto-Aryan combination would logically be "Mitra-Asura" ...
... tells us that the Indians worshipped Zeus Ombrios, "Zeus of the Rain-storms", who can only be Indra. On the coins of the Kushāņas (early centuries A.D.) we get representations of "Mithro" (Avestan Mithra, Rigvedic Mitra) as well as of "Horon" (Sanskrit Varuṇa). 4 In Gupta times we have evidence of worship of both Indra and Varuṇa. 5 On the face of it, it is perfectly possible for the Maryanni to ...
... 396 Meyer, E., 251, 281, 282 Meyer, J., 77 Michelson, 315 Mihirakula, 403, 501-16, 600, 606 Milindapanha, 259, 278, 360 Mills, 281 Min-nagara, 477 Mitākshara, 20 Mithra, 445 Mithridates I, 429, 460 Mithridates 11, 429, 459 Mitra, R., 253, 258 mlechchha, mlechchhas, 260, 513, 600 Mo-ho-nan (Mahānama), 35 Modogalikam (Modogalingae), 167 Mohenjo-daro ...
... is the human tendency to this error that even the old tolerant Paganism slew Socrates in the name of religion and morality, feebly persecuted non-national faiths like the cult of Isis or the cult of Mithra and more vigorously what it conceived to be the subversive and anti-social religion of the early Christians; and even in still more fundamentally tolerant Hinduism with all its spiritual broadness ...
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