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Zoroastrianism and Ancient Iranian Religion

The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire

Mysteries of the Unconquered Sun

by Roger Beck

A sophisticated study of Mithraism as a symbolic system linked to astronomy and cosmology. Beck reconstructs how initiates may have understood their ritual and imagery. A major contribution by a leading specialist.

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