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Given the vast number of Mithraic sanctuaries, it is surprisingly difficult to visit one.

From New York Times • May 1, 2023

Mother carries herself like a cult leader, ideal-driven and devoted to her family — which grows to include a group of Mithraic children she liberates from the enemy — but she loves ruthlessly.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2022

It doesn't help that the Mithraic soldiers' uniforms are distractingly kitschy; imagine cast-off uniforms from some 1980s XFL team called Holy Rollers.

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2020

There is, for example, the Mithraic altar she devised with her husband, which has seemingly Persian and Greek text, but is no more than an intellectual joke.

From The Guardian • Aug. 1, 2011

With the reign of Commodus, who was himself initiated both in the Isiac and Mithraic mysteries, begins the temporary triumph of the oriental cults, which was to reach its height in the reign of Julian.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel