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In a transfixing scene from the pilot, she strides through a Mithraic ship, the gooey remains of her foes floating in strands around her.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
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
Unhappily the text of the Mithraic decalogue has not been preserved and its principal commandments can be restored only by implication.
From The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism by Franz Cumont
