Monday, December 22, 2008
KEEP MITHRAS IN CHRISTMAS!
Once I thought of printing this slogan on a bumper sticker; as with any good idea, I did not think of it first. Please remember this holiday season to honor Mithras and the Invincible Sun with the rites they are due. For an excellent article on the Greco-Roman mystery cult origins of Christmas, try this; or go here for Steven Fry's game-show take on the same topic. It continues to amaze how no one really knows where this once-widespread religion originated; Persia, as was commonly thought? Syria? Anatolia, as Ulansey theorizes? India?
Once I thought of printing this slogan on a bumper sticker; as with any good idea, I did not think of it first. Please remember this holiday season to honor Mithras and the Invincible Sun with the rites they are due. For an excellent article on the Greco-Roman mystery cult origins of Christmas, try this; or go here for Steven Fry's game-show take on the same topic. It continues to amaze how no one really knows where this once-widespread religion originated; Persia, as was commonly thought? Syria? Anatolia, as Ulansey theorizes? India?
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