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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
The following prayer is the opening invocation of what appears to be a Mithraic liturgy, and may date from a period earlier than the fourth century.
From A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Joseph Cullen Ayer
