Mithra is the first of the genii, or jzeds, created by Ormuzd; it is he who watches over all nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

He adds, that Mithra is an intermediate being, and it is for this reason the Persians call Mithra the mediator or intermediator.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature] Reference

Mithra, condemned to create the world in suffering.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference

The central group represents Mithra slaying the bull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

C'est un rapport évident avec le soleil-dieu Mithra.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851] Reference

The name of Mithra, as elsewhere that of the magi Zoroaster and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference

Mazdāh and Mithra, a triad corresponding to the Chaldean triad.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

At Rome the rigorous mysteries of Mithra had paved the way for reform.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference

The ancient authors tell us almost nothing about the origin of Mithra.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference

He was keeping faith with his lord, as a true follower of Mithra ought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funeral Games]

Hebrews, omniscient and omnipresent; Mithra, deity of the sun, with the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference

He was identified with Adonis, Bacchus, Pan, Osiris and Mithra; he was made a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference

The story has been told by a dozen other alegories including Mithra, Horus and many others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

Mithra was worshiped almost exclusively by men, whom he subjected to a rigid moral discipline.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference

The worshipers of Mithra did not lose themselves in a contemplative mysticism like other sects.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference

This perfect purity distinguishes the mysteries of Mithra from those of all other Oriental gods.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference

Even after Mithra had been vanquished and expelled from Christianized Rome, Persia did not disarm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference

The mysteries of Mithra met the Greek culture with the culture of Persia, superior in some respects.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference

Sabazius and Mithra were honored by brotherhoods of believers as far as the remotest limits of Germany.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference

Christianity had no more dangerous antagonists than the followers of Mithra and other eastern divinities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

Egyptians, as worshipers of the sun under the name of Mithra, whom they regarded as standing between Ormuzd, "the author of good," and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference