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Definition of Mithra
1. Noun. Ancient Persian god of light and truth; sun god.
Definition of Mithra
1. Proper noun. An important deity or divine concept (Yazata) in Zoroastrianism and later Iranian history and culture. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mithra
Literary usage of Mithra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"mithra was born of a mother-rock by a river under a tree. ... At the end of the
world mithra will descend to Тик SACRIFICE OF mithra name, and uttered his ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"Also in the rural districts the cult of mithra flourished, ... So thus post and
city and village and mountain valley hymned their praises to mithra ..."
3. The Conversion of Europe by Charles Henry Robinson (1917)
"instituted the observance of Christmas they selected December 25, the mithraic "
natalis invicti," in order to displace the worship of mithra on this day.1 ..."
4. Zarathuštra, Philo, the Achaemenids and Israel: Being a Treatise Upon the by Lawrence Heyworth Mills (1906)
"mithra and Anahita. It may then be said, that both mithra and Anahita; see above,
... The familiar names of mithra and Anahita appear here just for a reason ..."
5. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"530. that the historian does not say Mil/iras, but mithra, which word ... In the
first place, the mithra spoken of by Herodotus is manifestly a female deity ..."
6. The Ghebers of Hebron: An Introduction to the Gheborim in the Lands of the by Samuel Fales Dunlap (1894)
"234) says that the Israelites adored mithra. The God standing on a lion (the
emblem of mithra) and surrounded by seven stars is the mithra vaga ..."
7. Outlines of the History of Religion: To the Spread of the Universal Religions by Cornelis Petrus Tiele (1905)
"When, under the government of Artaxerxes Mnemon, the cultus of mithra, ...
Thus mithra became more especially what Varuna had been in the Vedic religion, ..."
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