The God who is born from the rock. Comparative aspects of the myth of the birth of Mithras
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https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.2016.15.1506Keywords:
Mithras Petrogenitus, Mihr Yašt, Rig- Veda, Hittite Theogony, Diorphos, Agdistis, Erichthonius, MithraismAbstract
This article aims to improve and complete some reconstructive proposals already existing that relate the myth of the Roman God Mithras' birth from a rock with other traditions, namely some Hittite myths or some legends from Minor Asia. By including data from Hittite Theogony and Rig- Veda and integrating them in a set together with the iconographic information from Roman Mithraism and Sassanid Persia, I propose an Indo-European origin for the myth of the God born from a rock.
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