Talk:Mithra
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[edit] No mention of Jesus Christ
Jesus is a plagiarised version of this Mithra, he should be mentioned. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.106.96.159 (talk) 20:33, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
- I agree, something should be written about the significance of the Mithra stories as one of the precursors to the Jesus of Nazareth stories. The late Dr. Alan Dundes did a lot of great scholarship about this.
- -CFW Cfwschmidt (talk) 19:55, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
- Dundes was an expert on folklore and legend, not dead religions, so why would we defer to him? The idea that Jesus is a clone of Mithra is really historical gibberish. That is probably why this article makes no mention of it.Farsight001 (talk) 01:44, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
I think the historical jesus simply tried to re-enact mithra's legend towards his own goal , which of course was the creation or continuation of a proto-semitic religion.
Mithra was an iranian figure and the romans were at conflict with iranians , mithraism was only popular in the roman army and certainly had its critics among other romans , that's i believe how jesus , a jew , exploited this fact and copied mithra on many occasions during his life. Kermanii (talk) 15:24, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
This article isn't the most scholarly looking thing I've ever seen, but he cites sources for quotes and some of his points stem from obviously true things. Definitely worth a read: http://www.sullivan-county.com/bush/travilocity1.htm The connection to Jesus is a conspiracy theory, much in the vein of the whole Jesus-Horus business. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.162.234.245 (talk) 06:54, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Why no discussion of connection to the Roman Mithras?
Presumably there is some connection to the Roman Mithras of the Mithraic Mysteries; this certainly merits mention if not discussion. Likewise, if there is no connection (unlikely) that deserves mention as well. However, I am not the one to do this since I know nothing about either deity except what's in the Wikipedia. jackbrown (talk) 09:04, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Faulty Graphics
Please consider removing the MISIDENTIFIED graphic at the head of the article. It is NOT "Mithra" but rather the Roman "god" Mithras if you take a look at the credits for the photo itself. A proper photo of a sculpture of Mithra/Mitra appears later in the article and you will see that he is a bearded elder in Persian garb and not a beardless youth in a Parthian cap as Mithras is traditionally portrayed. Thank you for your consideration... Emyth (talk) 20:01, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
