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  2. File:A marble relif of the Indo-Iranian Sun god Mithra, II ...

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  4. Mithra - Wikipedia

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    Mithra (Avestan: π¬¨π¬Œπ¬šπ¬­π¬€ Miθra; Old Persian: 𐎷𐎰𐎼 MiθraΚ° ‍) is an ancient Iranian deity of covenants, light, oaths, justice, the Sun, [1] contracts, and friendship. [2] In addition to being the divinity of contracts, Mithra is also a judicial figure, an all-seeing protector of Truth ( Asha ), and the guardian of cattle ...

  5. Mitra - Wikipedia

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    Greek/Latin "Mithras," the focal deity of the Greco-Roman cult of Mithraism is the nominative form of vocative Mithra. In contrast to the original Avestan meaning of "contract" or "covenant" (and still evident in post-Sassanid Middle Persian texts), the Greco-Roman Mithraists probably thought the name meant "mediator".

  6. Cautes and Cautopates - Wikipedia

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    In Mithraic images, Mithras either represents the sun, or is a close friend of the sun god Helios or Sol Invictus (Latin: the invincible sun) with whom Mithras dines. So attendants Cautes and Cautopates are supposed to represent the stations of sunrise and sunset respectively, or perhaps the spring and autumn equinoxes, or equivalently the ascending (spring) and descending (autumnal) nodes of ...

  7. Mithraic reliefs of Jort - Wikipedia

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    The representations associated with the Mithraic cult are well documented, facilitating the identification of the blocks discovered in Jort. These images were ubiquitous throughout the Roman Empire from the 1st to the 4th centuries. [B 23] Mithraic reliefs typically depict the Sun and the Moon framing the image of Mithra sacrificing the bull.

  8. Ancient Iranian religion - Wikipedia

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    Mithra was the god who presided over the covenants. In Iranian religion there were two gods with martial traits similar to those of Vedic Indra, these were Mithra and Vrthraghna . The most prominent female deities were Spanta Aramati, the deity of the earth, and Ardvi Sura, the deity of the sacred river.

  9. List of solar deities - Wikipedia

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    Horus, god of the sky whose right eye was considered to be the Sun and his left the Moon; Khepri, god of the rising Sun, creation and renewal of life; Ptah, god of craftsmanship, the arts, and fertility, sometimes said to represent the Sun at night; Ra, god of the Sun; Sekhmet, goddess of war and of the Sun, sometimes also plagues and creator ...