Posted on 08/15/2005 2:04:48 PM PDT by Navydog
For over three hundred years the rulers of the Roman Empire worshipped the god Mithras. Known throughout Europe and Asia by the names Mithra, Mitra, Meitros, Mihr, Mehr, and Meher, the veneration of this god began some 4000 years ago in Persia, where it was soon imbedded with Babylonian doctrines. The faith spread east through India to China, and reached west throughout the entire length of the Roman frontier; from Scotland to the Sahara Desert, and from Spain to the Black Sea. Sites of Mithraic worship have been found in Britain, Italy, Romania, Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey, Persia, Armenia, Syria, Israel, and North Africa.
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Wasn't he born of a rock , not a virgin? Though I guess the rock didn't have sex.
Mithras, god of commerce, is far from dead. He changed his name and grew a beard, and looks out at the world through many eyes.
This is a student essay written in 1993 by David Fingrut in conjunction with a high-school course at Toronto's SEED Alternative School. Although it would get a good grade from me and I happily went out of my way to obtain Mr. Fingrut's permission to reproduce it here, if you cite this work in a term paper or other work, you should be aware that it was written by a student rather than by an authority; and furthermore, that I'm no authority either.
I didn't think it could get any funnier, until the writer directs the reader to WIKIPEDIA!!!!
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