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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth

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To: bentway who wrote (42351)4/18/2005 10:50:42 AM
From: goldworldnet  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
Most of the information available about this ancient religion, the favorite of Roman soldiers, comes to us from the two volumes by Belgian scholar Franz Cumont, Textes et monuments figurés relatifs aux mystères de Mithra (1896 and 1899). More recently, David Ulansey has added to the dicussion with his The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World. Roman Mithraism was a mystery religion with sacrifice and initiation. Like other mystery cults, there's little recorded literary evidence. What we know comes mainly from Christian detractors

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