The mysteries of Mithra: Tracing syncretistic connections to the ancient Near East

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" The mysteries of Mithra: Tracing syncretistic connections to the ancient Near East "
Carlo Provanzano W. Cumiford

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	53905
Doc. No	:	TL23859
Call number	:	‭1481388‬
Main Entry	:	Carlo Provanzano
Title & Author	:	The mysteries of Mithra: Tracing syncretistic connections to the ancient Near East\ Carlo Provanzano
College	:	California State University, Dominguez Hills
Date	:	2009
Degree	:	M.A.
student score	:	2009
Page No	:	133
Abstract	:	Mithraism, first established as a separate branch of study by famed philologist Franz Cumont in the first year of the 20th century, is currently a battlefield of contention among scholars, especially concerning the origins and meaning of the Roman Cult of Mithra. The author herein argues that Roman Mithraism was not a completely newly fabricated cult but merely another manifestation of the same Mysteries descended from the ancient Near East and Egypt. The methodology used applies a syncretistic comparison and discursive examination of various elements in the Roman cultic iconography, epigraphy, textual remnants and rituals with correlative manifestations of the astral-cosmogonical beliefs, relics, and rituals from the ancient Near East and Egypt over a period of more than four thousand years. The discourse includes ancillary discussions on the leontocephalous (lion-headed god) and the Sun-god-Moon-god alternating preeminence in archaic cultures and in relation to the Cult of Mithra.
Subject	:	Philosophy, religion and theology; Social sciences; Religion; Near Eastern Studies; Ancient history; Philology; 0579:Ancient history; 0559:Near Eastern Studies; 0318:Religion
Added Entry	:	W. Cumiford
Added Entry	:	California State University, Dominguez Hills