The Real History Behind the Da Vinci Code by Sharan Newman

Author:Sharan Newman [Newman, Sharan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi, pdf
Tags: History, General, Literary Criticism, American, Religion, Christianity
ISBN: 9780425200124
Google: qr_UVZVYsyEC
Amazon: B000OIZSW8
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2005-01-03T13:00:00+00:00

The connection to Isis is especially important because in some of her temples there was a ritual slaying of a bull, as in the image of Mithras. The genitals of the bull were cut off (see the scorpion in the picture if you can make it out) and burned. I have read that this took the place of an earlier ritual castration of the high priest. I can see how that requirement would not produce a sense of ambition among the temple priests.

WHAT SCHOL ARS THINK MITHRAS WAS

Ancient authors assumed that Mithras was a form of a Persian god Mithra. Until recently, Modern scholars followed this, assuming that any differences between the two were the result of cultural changes as the cult moved east. But recently people have tried to look at the representations of Mithras without a Persian base. The results have been interesting and sometimes controversial.

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