It was common to find sacrices offered by an individual in return for some specific purpose, but that is perhaps a secondary or derived use of sacrifice which...
Dear Tory, To add to what Bradley stated - there is no concrete evidence for a bull-slaying ROMAN Mithras until ca. 100 CE, thus Mithraism being a model for...
"You seem to me to be going to extreme lengths to take a few scant pieces of evidence and favorable suppositions to give Sirius an important role at Commagene...
John, Thank you for the response, and for the link. It will prove helpful. I too believe there is no substantial link between the two religions. Have you...
I think all your correspondants need to go further back into early religion. There are proto- religions which contain the essence of many of the features in...
dear Tory, I presume Bradley is a kind of teacher, seeing his manner to answer your letter. But what you see here is also the way to follow if you are a...
Dear all, Christianity as we know it did not exist in the first century AD, but developed its form over a long period of time. Mithraism survived into the ...
Hello Tory, Plutarch, who is generally regarded as a fairly reliable source, claimed that Mithraism first came to Roman attention in 67 BCE - more than a ...
Hello Tory, Plutarch, who is generally regarded as a fairly reliable source, claimed that Mithraism first came to Roman attention in 67 BCE - more than a ...
greetings, probably a silly comment but; "call no man father(pater) but the father which is in heaven" could suggest that the man himself was aware of some...
The Oldest Mithraic monuments come from around 100 or just before, And tehy appear at the same all over Italy and Germany Statius, in the 80s, is the first...
Tory, "Have you read anything of Ulansey's? I have read a little, but have not found if he actually thinks there is a link or not. " Yes I've read him and...
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On 2 Dec 2003 at 6:17, hammondhmm@... wrote: [snip] ... Hi Rose. From memory the Xmas tree is recent and the star on top is "the star of Bethlehem." No...
... I've read his major book, on Mithraic origins, and I've had some private correspondance with him. I can't say I'm totally convinced that Mithraism began...
Well, this demonic counterfeit theory applied to all of graeco-Roman religion. Mithriasm is actually not mentioned that frequently by the fathers. Mithriasm...
Well, this demonic counterfeit theory applied to all of graeco-Roman religion. Mithriasm is actually not mentioned that frequently by the fathers. Mithriasm...
The merger, (and perhaps merger is too strong a word), of Christianity and Mithraism would have been a slow and gradual thing, as was Constantine's conversion...
Bradley, Tory, and all, I must say, Bradley, that your cavalier use of classical texts is dissapointing. You give all the appearances of a scholar, and...
The Plutarch reference is difficult. It goes against all other evidence for the origin of Mithriasm. Probably it is best to consider it arising from some...
The cohesion of ancient society depended on the maintaince of clear-cut relationships of power, status, and rank. Christianity was a revolutioanry religion...
Dear Jean, I just wrote an off-list letter to Tory - I am always sorry when someone asks a genuine and valid question and is then mislead by someone apparently...
You seem to think that this late dating of Mithraism is some personal argument I am making. Not so. It is the concenssus opinion of Beck, Gordon, Claus,...
What I find interesting, considering the little-known relations between religions in early Christian times, is the fact that the Emperor Alexander Severus ...
Now I see what you're getting at, that the taurcotony seeks to associate the flow of blessing from heaven in cult with the natural actions of the stars casting...
The trouble with this, it comes from the Historia Augusta, a far from reliable source. Yet, I do not dismiss it for this reason: Porphryry, writing probably in...
Greetings, Can anyone provide any references to research the ancient 'star lore' alluded to here? Regards Peter bradley Skene <malkhos@...> wrote: Now I...
Malkhos, "...but all of the stars were invovled in this process, and others besides Sirius had special roles in it, inlcuding the Pleiades, which, if we...
... In general, it was an unusual thing to do, as Christianity had been an illegal cultus (perhaps like Falungong in China today) for a long time. Most of the...
