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Mithras, Mithra Mythol.|ˈmɪθræs, ˈmɪθrə|
Forms: 6 Mitra, 6–7 Mythra, 7 Mithres, 6– Mithra, 7– Mithras.
[L. Mithrās, Mithrēs = Gr. Μίθρᾱς, a. OPers. Mithra, corresponding etymologically to Skr. Mitra, one of the gods of the Vedic pantheon.]
One of the chief gods of the ancient Persians, in later times often identified with the sun. His worship was introduced amongst the Romans under the empire, and spread over most of northern and western Europe. Also applied by More to the Supreme Being of ‘Utopia’.
1551Robinson tr. More's Utopia ii. (1895) 267 There is one chiefe and pryncipall God..whome they all commonly in theire countrey language call Mythra. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. ii. 115 [They] worshipped the Sunne, which they called Mitra. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1306 This Zoroastres..named the good god Oromazes, and the other Arimanius..he gave out..also that there is one in the middes betweene them, named Mithres: (and heereupon it is, that the Persians call an intercessor or mediator Mithres). a1650Crashaw Wks. (1904) 365 Before the Infant Shrine Of my weake feet the Persian Magi lay And left their Mithra for my star. 1822Hodgson in Archæol. æliana I. 284 Montfaucon thinks these two attendants are also Mithrases.
attrib.1864C. W. King Gnostics 47 The Mithras-worship at first indeed makes its appearance as a distinct creed. 1903J. Moffat in Expositor Dec. 469 The Mithra-cult. |