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MITHRA
Multiple Authors
i. Mitra in Old Indian and Mithra in Old Iranian ii. Iconography in Iran and Central Asia iii. in Manicheism
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MITHRA i. MITRA IN OLD INDIAN AND MITHRA IN OLD IRANIAN
Hanns-Peter Schmidt
Indo-Iranian god, with name based on the common noun mitrá “contract” with the connotations of “covenant, agreement, treaty, alliance, promise.”
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MITHRA iii. IN MANICHEISM
Werner Sundermann
The Iranian Manicheans adopted the name of the Zoroastrian god Mithra (Av. Miθra; Mid. Pers.Mihr)and used it to designate one of their own deities.
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MITHRA ii. ICONOGRAPHY IN IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA
Franz Grenet
On coins of the Arsacids the seated archer dressed as a Parthian horseman has been interpreted as Mithra. In the Kushan empire Mithra is among the deities most frequently depicted on the coinage, always as a young solar god.
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MITHRAISM
Roger Beck
the cult of Mithra as it developed in the West, its origins, its features, and its probable connection with Mithra worship in Iran.
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MEHRAGĀN
Simone Cristoforetti
an Iranian festival apparently dedicated to the god Miθra/Mehr, occurring also in onomastics and toponymy.
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DĀTAMIΘRA
Rüdiger Schmitt
Iranian personal name resulting from an inversion of Miθra-dāta- “given by Mithra” and continued in the New Persian Dādmehr.
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CAUTES AND CAUTOPATES
William W. Malandra
the two dadophoroi or torch bearers who often flank Mithras in the bull-slaying scene and who are sometimes shown in the birth scenes of Mithras.
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AŠTĀD
G. Gnoli
Old Iranian female deity of rectitude and justice.
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AHURA
F. B. J. Kuiper
designation of a type of deity inherited by Zoroastrianism from the prehistoric Indo-Iranian religion.