Anahita
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Anahita is the Old Persian form of the name of an Iranian goddess and appears in complete and earlier form as Aradvi Sura Anahita, the Avestan name of an Indo-Iranian cosmological figure venerated as
Gilded silver bowl with the image of Anahita, dated 400–600 AD, housed in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
The Lotus flower is the symbol of goddess Anahita
4th-6th century silver and gilt Sasanian vessel, assumed to be depicting Anahita. (Cleveland Museum of Art)
Naqsh-e Rustam investiture of Narseh (r. 293–302), in which the Sasanian king (second from right) receives the ring of kingship from Anahita (right).
Mithra
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Mithra is an ancient Iranian deity of covenants, light, oaths, justice, the Sun, contracts, and friendship. In addition to being the divinity of contracts, Mithra is also a judicial figure, an all-see
Relief from Taq-e Bostan in Kermanshah Iran. In this relief, Ardashir II is in the middle and to his right is Shapur II and to the left of the king, the god Mithra, with beams of light like the sun emanating from his head in all directions, and he is standing on a sacred lotus flower.
A marble relief of the tauroctony in later Roman Mithraism, 2nd – 3rd century CE
Yalda celebration
Mithras-Helios (right), with solar rays and in Iranian dress, with Antiochus I of Commagene (Mt. Nemrut, 1st century BCE)