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The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World

A monograph arguing that the tauroctony encodes an astronomical star-map and that Roman Mithraism arose among Stoic intellectuals responding to the discovery of the precession of the equinoxes.

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Author
David Ulansey
Type
Book
Written
1989
Edition
1991
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
Tradition
Mithraism
Identifiers
ISBN0195067886 (1991 pbk); 0195054024 (1989 hbk)

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