How To Use Mithra In A Sentence
- Their conceptions of the battles between good and evil were almost identical, with Christianity adopting millennial epochs that were integral to Mithraism from Zoroastrianism .
- Now here is what is interesting, the worshippers of Mithras strongly believed in a celestial heaven and an infernal hell.
- Agni araflammed and Mithra monished and Shiva slew as maya-mutras the obluvial waters of our noarchic memory withdrew, windingly goharksome, to some hastyswasty timberman torch-priest, flamenfan, the ward of the wind that lightened the fire that lay in the wood that Jove bolt, at his rude word. Finnegans Wake
- Eventually, Mithra became more militant, and he is best known as a warrior.
- It was based on worship of the god Mithras and derives from the Persian and Indic god Mithra and other Zoroastrian deities .
- He saw the pond they called the lake and the grey bulk of the Mithraeum on the farther shore.
- Demeter, the type of the earth, or to Mithras, the symbol of all that fructifies that earth, -- the great object and design of the secret instruction were identical in all places, and the Mysteries constituted a school of religion in which the errors and absurdities of polytheism were revealed to the initiated. The Symbolism of Freemasonry
- Around the first century AD, the Greek historian Plutarch wrote about pirates of Cilicia who practiced the Mithraic "secret rites" around 67 BC.
- Mithra was slain upon a cross in Persia to make atonement for humankind and take away the sins of the world.
- Mithraism, an established but exclusive sect devoted to social justice, was assimilated by state-sponsored Christianity before being disposed of in name.
