Mithras: Perbedaan antara revisi

 

'''Misteri Mithraik''' adalah [[Misteri Yunani-Romawi|agama misteri]] yang dipraktikkan di [[Kekaisaran Romawi]] dari sekitar abad ke-1 sampai 4 SM. Nama dewa [[Sejarah Iran|Persia]] [[Mithra]] (proto-Indo-Iran Mitra), diadaptasi ke dalam [[bahasa Yunani]] sebagai '''Mithras''', dikaitkan dengan citra yang baru dan khas. Para penulis pada periode Kekaisaran Romawi merujuk pada agama misteri ini dengan frase yang dapat di artikan kedalam bahasa Inggris sebagai '''Misteri Mithras''' atau '''Misteri Bangsa Persia''';<ref name=beck>{{cite web | url = http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/mithraism | title = Mithraism | accessdate = 2011-03-24 | last = Beck | first = Roger | date =2002-07-20 | publisher = Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online Edition | quote = The term “Mithraism” is of course a modern coinage. In antiquity the cult was known as “the mysteries of Mithras”; alternatively, as “the mysteries of the Persians.”…The Mithraists, who were manifestly not Persians in any ethnic sense, thought of themselves as cultic “Persians.” ... the ancient Roman Mithraists themselves were convinced that their cult was founded by none other than Zoroaster, who “dedicated to Mithras, the creator and father of all, a cave in the mountains bordering Persia,” an idyllic setting “abounding in flowers and springs of water” (Porphyry, On the Cave of the Nymphs 6).}}</ref><ref>[http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/04166.htm Origen, Contra Celsus, Book&nbsp;6],