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the form mi-it-ra-, found in an inscribed peace treaty between the Hittites and the kingdom of Mitanni, from about 1400BCE. [l] between the king of the Hittites, Subbiluliuma, and the king of Mitanni, Mativaza. ... It is the earliest evidence of Mithras in Asia Minor. [18] [19] Mithraism reached the apogee of its popularity during the 2nd and 3rd centuries, spreading at an "astonishing" rate at the same period when the worship of Sol Invictus was incorporated into the state-sponsored cults. [43] (p 299) [bc] Although the iconography of the cult varied a great deal from temple to temple, there is one element of the cult's iconography which was present in essentially the same form in every mithraeum and which, moreover, was clearly of the utmost importance to the cult's ideology; namely the so-called tauroctony, or bull-slaying scene, in which the god Mithras, accompanied by a series of other figures, is depicted in the act of killing the bull." — D. Ulansey (1991) [9] (p 6) According to Cumont, the imagery of the tauroctony was a Graeco-Roman representation of an event in Zoroastrian cosmogony described in a 9th-century Zoroastrian text, the Bundahishn. In this text the evil spirit Ahriman (not Mithra) slays the primordial creature Gavaevodata, which is represented as a bovine. [bj] the astonishing spread of the cult in the later 2nd and early 3rdcenturiesAD ... This extraordinary expansion, documented by the archaeological monuments..." [4] (p 25)

After this, Celsus, desiring to exhibit his learning in his treatise against us, quotes also certain Persian mysteries, where he says: ' These things are obscurely hinted at in the accounts of the Persians, and especially in the mysteries of Mithras, which are celebrated among them...'" Bringing these two sources together gives us Mythras, a game concerned with myths, protectors, oaths, great deeds and wonderful stories: the perfect name for our game system.At this point you should be able to drag and drop the character to the table multiple times to get multiple tokens but you can edit the token bar on each token individually without affecting the other tokens and any macros and abilities will still work against the linked character sheet. You may want to rename each token to have a number at the end of the name so it is easier for players to communicate which one they are talking about. We recommend linking attributes to the bars like action point, magic points, tenacity, or fatigue. From July 2016, the name Mythras takes over from the previous trademark, but the same great rules continue, bringing you d100-based roleplaying adventure centred on logical, consistent, straightforward mechanics, coupled with innovative approaches to character creation, combat, magic and monsters. The name may have changed, but the song remains the same. Despite the discovery of a hidden temple that promised to unearth the secrets of Mithras, relatively little is known about the cult and how they worshipped. Nonetheless, here are 10 facts revealing what we do know about Roman London’s mysterious god. 1. The secretive cult worshiped a bull-killing god called Mithras

You can read the full press release here: http://thedesignmechanism.com/resources/Press_Releases/Lyonesse%20RPG%20Press%20Release.pdf . The cave is described as persei, which in this context is usually translated Persian. According to the translator J.H.Mozley it literally means Persean, referring to Perses, the son of Perseus and Andromeda, [9] (p 29) this Perses being the ancestor of the Persians according to Greek legend. [9] (pp 27–29) Justin Martyr [ edit ] Iranian Mithra and Sanskrit Mitra are believed to come from the Indo-Iranian word mitrás, meaning "contract, agreement, covenant". [20] perplexingly, a demonic figure in the Zoroastrian pantheon. Arimanius is known from inscriptions to have been a god in the Mithraic cult as seen, for example, in images from the Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae (CIMRM [35]) such as CIMRM [35]222 from Ostia, CIMRM369 from Rome, and CIMRM [35]1773 and 1775 from Pannonia. [38] Clauss noted in 1990 that overall, only about 14% of Mithraic names inscribed before 250CE identify the initiate's grade – and hence questioned the traditional view that all initiates belonged to one of the seven grades. [58] Clauss argues that the grades represented a distinct class of priests, sacerdotes. Gordon maintains the former theory of Merkelbach and others, especially noting such examples as Dura where all names are associated with a Mithraic grade. Some scholars maintain that practice may have differed over time, or from one Mithraeum to another.Nevertheless, the fact that Porphyry and / or his sources would have had no scruples about adapting or even inventing Mithraic data to suit their arguments does not necessarily mean that they actually did so. It is far more likely that Mithraic doctrine (in the weak sense of the term!) really was what the philosophers said it was ... there are no insuperable discrepancies between Mithraic practice and theory as attested in Porphyry and Mithraic practice and theory as archaeology has allowed us to recover them. Even if there were major discrepancies, they would matter only in the context of the old model of an internally consistent and monolithic Mithraic doctrine. [52] (p 87) Clauss suggests that a statement by Porphyry, that people initiated into the Lion grade must keep their hands pure from everything that brings pain and harm and is impure, means that moral demands were made upon members of congregations. [ae] In the colossal statuary erected by King AntiochusI (69–34BCE) at Mount Nemrut, Mithras is shown beardless, wearing a Phrygian cap [3] [72] According to C.M. Daniels, [77] whether any of this relates to the origins of the mysteries is unclear. [aj] Mithraism is viewed as a rival of early Christianity. [5] (p 147) In the 4thcentury, Mithraists faced persecution from Christians, and the religion was subsequently suppressed and eliminated in the Roman Empire by the end of the century. [6]