Mitra
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Mitra is the name of an Indo-Iranian divinity that came out of the Rigvedic Mitrá and Avestan Mithra.
Mithra (left) in a 4th-century investiture sculpture at Taq-e Bostan in western Iran.
Mithras-Helios, in Phrygian cap with solar rays, with 1st century BC Antiochus I Theos of Commagene, found at Mount Nemrut, in present-day eastern Turkey
Relief of Roman Mithras, in a tauroctony scene
Mithraism
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Mithraism, also known as the Mithraic mysteries or the Cult of Mithras, was a Roman mystery religion focused on the god Mithras. Although inspired by Iranian worship of the Zoroastrian divinity Mithra
Mitra
…Maitreya, a vrddhi-derived form of Sanskrit mitra, a bodhisattva in Buddhist tradition. Latin Mithras, the principal figure of the first-century Roman mystery cult of Mithraism, whose name derives from the Avestan theonym via Greek and some Anatolian…
Mithras killing the bull, c. 150 CE; Louvre-Lens
Double-faced Mithraic relief. Fiano Romano (Rome), 2nd to 3rd century CE, Louvre Museum.
Rock-born Mithras and Mithraic artifacts, Baths of Diocletian, Rome
A bas-relief of the tauroctony of the mysteries, Metz, France