Mithras
deity figure · 5 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
his god
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
Deity of the Mithraic mysteries, invoked as an example of nature-allegorized religion.
just as the lions of Mithras philosophize the mysteries of the parched and burning nature.
De Baptismo
Deity of a mystery cult whose initiation rites included washing, cited as a false parallel to baptism.
For they too are initiated by certain rites through a washing — of some Isis or Mithras;
De Corona
The pagan deity of the mystery cult whose initiate ritually declares him to be his 'crown.'
and he is at once believed a soldier of Mithras, if he has cast down the crown, if he has said that it is in his god.
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum
Deity of the Mithraic mysteries, whose initiatory rites (sealing of soldiers) are cited as a demonic imitation of Christian ritual.
and, if I still remember rightly, Mithras there seals his soldiers on their foreheads;
Cyropaedia
Divinity invoked by Artabazus in an oath.
and yet yesterday, by Mithras, if I had not fought my way through the crowd with my fists, I vow I could not have got near you.