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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

A century and change into the future, Earth has been destroyed in a war between two groups of people: the theocratic Mithraic, who worship a deity called Sol, and the technocratic atheists.

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

Marcion was evidently Persian and used Mithraic symbolism.

From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Westbrook, Richard B.