Thread: And a Merry festival of Mithra
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Old 12-21-2009, 01:55 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe View Post
Hi, Peverel!

Not to knit-pic here, but I'm not sure there even was a "festival of Mithra."

"[T]he Mithraic Mysteries had no public ceremonies of its own. The festival of natalis Invicti [Birth of the Unconquerable (Sun)], held on 25 December, was a general festival of the Sun, and by no means specific to the Mysteries of Mithras."
-- Clauss, Manfred. From Mithras: Kult und Mysterien. Quoted in the Wikipedia entry, "Mithraic Mysteries."

Notwithstanding, I wish to you and yours a very merry Natalis Invicti and may your celebrations during the Saturnalia be joyous!
lol I should have learnt by now not to use artist license at Mobile Read lol

You are quite right, I took a bit of license and combined the Iranian feast of Mithra (Source - Dr. Taqizadeh) with the Roman dates to get what I wanted lol

May you have a wonderful celebration of whatever belief you hold dear and is fitting for this holiday season
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