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Explain all mithraic connections
Mithraism is a convergence point for suppressed religious history: its ritual architecture, initiatory grades, solar theology, and communal meal map uncomfortably close to early Christian practice. Brian Muraresku, David Ulansey, and Mauro Biglino each independently argue the overlap is too systematic to be coincidental. The cult's true origins remain deliberately obscured — not Persian but a synthesis of Hurrian, Urartian, Armenian, Greek, and Mesopotamian strata predating Zoroastrianism entirely.
Evidence
- Brian Muraresku, in his scholarship on the ancient pharmaka tradition, identifies Mithraism as one of several mystery cults whose initiatory meals — wine mixed with psychoactive compounds — formed a continuous underground river flowing into early Christian Eucharist theology.
- Astronomer David Ulansey demonstrated that the central Mithraic image — the tauroctony, Mithras slaying the bull — is a star map encoding the precession of the equinoxes.
- According to New Mithraeum research, the tauroctony would be outright blasphemy under Zoroastrianism — Ahriman, the principle of evil, kills the bull in Zoroastrian myth.
- Manly P. Hall noted in his esoteric compendium that Mithraic initiates were 'united by the handshake' — the syndexioi — a fraternal bond echoed in Freemasonic grip traditions.
- The cult's Roman spread was driven not by Persian missionaries but by Cilician pirates and Armenian-Commagenian priests — per New Mithraeum scholarship — suggesting it arrived in Rome as a Near Eastern synthesis already centuries in formation.