| 21. | Soon Wyatt is discouraged, and goes home only to find his father converted to Mithraism and losing his mind.
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| 22. | Mithraism, a pagan sun cult, celebrated " the birth of the unconquered sun " around this date.
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| 23. | According to Walter Burkert, the secret character of Mithriac rituals meant that Mithraism could only be practiced within a Mithraeum.
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| 24. | Popular among the Roman military, Mithraism was spread as far north as Hadrian's Wall and the Germanic Limes.
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| 25. | By far the most popular in the army was Mithraism, an apparently syncretist religion which mainly originated in Asia Minor.
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| 26. | While Howard never dwells in theology, his version of prehistoric Mithraism is the religion closest resembling monotheism in his works.
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| 27. | When I say that Christmas came from Mithraism, I should insert a comment that it was actually indirectly from Mithraism.
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| 28. | When I say that Christmas came from Mithraism, I should insert a comment that it was actually indirectly from Mithraism.
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| 29. | David Ulansey finds it important that Porphyry " confirms . . . that astral conceptions played an important role in Mithraism ."
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| 30. | Now, as to why Mithraism celebrated December 25th as the date that Mithras was born-that's another story.
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