Category:Mithras
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- Mithras is also a gossamer-winged butterfly genus in tribe Eumaeini.
This category is a sub-category of Category:Mithraism, i.e. the Roman Mithraic Mysteries, the cult of the Roman god Mithras (Latin Mithras, but sometimes spelled without -s in some languages, which invariably leads to confusion with other figures).
Guidance for uploaders:
- If the image you are tagging does not obviously fall into one of the following three categories (these are very easy to identify),...
- Category:Tauroctony (very distinctive scene of Mithras slaying a bull)
- Category:Petra genetrix (look like a figure of Mithras emerging from a rock)
- Category:Mithraic dedication stela (look like blocks of stone with dedicatory inscriptions)
- then it is probably a picture of one of the torchbearers (Cautes or Cautopates) or of the snake-entwined lion-headed figure (Leontocephaline), or one of the numerous other Greco-Roman figures that were worshiped alongside Mithras in the Mithraic temples (mithraea).
NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH Category:Mithra, which pertains to an Iranian divinity.
Subcategories
This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
Media in category "Mithras"
The following 8 files are in this category, out of 8 total.
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40.11 Mithras altar.png 1,033 × 1,745; 3.17 MB
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41.13b Mithras gem.tif 1,322 × 1,013; 1.12 MB
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41.2 Mithras gem.png 941 × 1,232; 589 KB
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Bas relief from Virunum.png 211 × 629; 249 KB
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Hama Museum 4429.jpg 4,256 × 2,832; 12.13 MB
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Krkavce-kamen.JPG 1,280 × 960; 114 KB
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Yorkshire Museum - Arimanes.jpg 3,074 × 4,562; 2.94 MB