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MITHRA
Multiple Authors
i. Mitra in Old Indian and Mithra in Old Iranian ii. Iconography in Iran and Central Asia iii. in Manicheism
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MITHRA i. MITRA IN OLD INDIAN AND MITHRA IN OLD IRANIAN
Hanns-Peter Schmidt
Indo-Iranian god, with name based on the common noun mitrá “contract” with the connotations of “covenant, agreement, treaty, alliance, promise.”
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MITHRA iii. IN MANICHEISM
Werner Sundermann
The Iranian Manicheans adopted the name of the Zoroastrian god Mithra (Av. Miθra; Mid. Pers.Mihr)and used it to designate one of their own deities.
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MITHRA ii. ICONOGRAPHY IN IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA
Franz Grenet
On coins of the Arsacids the seated archer dressed as a Parthian horseman has been interpreted as Mithra. In the Kushan empire Mithra is among the deities most frequently depicted on the coinage, always as a young solar god.
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MITHRAISM
Roger Beck
the cult of Mithra as it developed in the West, its origins, its features, and its probable connection with Mithra worship in Iran.
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MEHRAGĀN
Simone Cristoforetti
an Iranian festival apparently dedicated to the god Miθra/Mehr, occurring also in onomastics and toponymy.
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DĀTAMIΘRA
Rüdiger Schmitt
Iranian personal name resulting from an inversion of Miθra-dāta- “given by Mithra” and continued in the New Persian Dādmehr.
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CAUTES AND CAUTOPATES
William W. Malandra
the two dadophoroi or torch bearers who often flank Mithras in the bull-slaying scene and who are sometimes shown in the birth scenes of Mithras.
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AŠTĀD
G. Gnoli
Old Iranian female deity of rectitude and justice.
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AHURA
F. B. J. Kuiper
designation of a type of deity inherited by Zoroastrianism from the prehistoric Indo-Iranian religion.
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RAŠN
William Malandra
Avestan Rašnu, the deity of the ancient Iranian pantheon who functions as the divine Judge.
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GORZ
Jalil Doostkhah
or gorza, gorz-e gāvsār/sar, lit. "ox-headed club/mace," a weapon often mentioned and variously described in Iranian myths and epic. In classical Persian texts, particularly in Ferdowsi’s Šāh-nāma, it is characterized as the decisive weapon of choice in fateful battles.
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ARIZANTOI
C. J. Brunner
one of the six tribes of the Median nation as listed by Herodotus.
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DURIS OF SAMOS
RÜDIGER SCHMITT
(Gk. Doûris), (ca. 340-281/270 B.C.E.), Greek historiographer of the early Hellenistic period.
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AHURA.ṰKAĒŠA
M. Boyce
an infrequent Avestan adjective meaning “following the Ahuric doctrine.”
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BĀGAYĀDIŠ
R. Schmitt
name of the seventh month (September-October) of the Old Persian calendar, mentioned in Darius I’s Behistun inscription.
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ČISTĀ
Jean Kellens
and Čisti; Avestan derivatives of the verb cit “to notice, to understand.”
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APĄM NAPĀT
M. Boyce
(Son of the Waters), Zoroastrian divinity of mysterious character whose true identity, like that of his Vedic counterpart, Apām Napāt, has been much debated.
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HERTEL, JOHANNES
Almut Hintze
Hertel’s lasting contributions to scholarship are his earlier works on Sanskrit narrative literature and its transmission. They culminated in the publication of a four-volume edition of the Pañcatantra in the Harvard Oriental Series, vols. 11-14 (1908-15). After his appointment to the Indology chair in Leipzig, he turned to Vedic studies and, from 1924, to Avestan.
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AŠI
B. Schlerath, P. O. Skjærvø
Avestan feminine noun meaning “thing attained, reward, share, portion, recompense” and, as a personification, the goddess “Reward, Fortune.”