I'd be more than happy to watch it. Got a link?
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I'd be more than happy to watch it. Got a link?
It was a cult and a religion, but it functioned in Roman society a lot more like the Freemasonry or Elks Club, same "kind" of thing as the fraternal societies of our era. Initiates into the Cult of Mithras had the potential to rise through a series of different grades. The initiate would recite an oath promising his secrecy and at the end he would have his hands branded or tattooed. There were then a series of trials, including the naked and blindfolded initiate being guided by a white-robed figure, a sword on the ground next to him, with one of the men standing behind him with his hands on his head, and the sword is used to cut the chicken-gut bindings that ties the initiate's hands.
And it had the same connection to the beliefs of Persians as the Ancient Order of Hibernians has to Celtic Druidism. However, the Mithras gave Roman Catholicism the concept of celibate priests and nuns.