Mithras killed the bull, which then became the
ground of life for the human race.
Those claiming a link between Mithras and Jesus talk about the“baptism” that initiated prospects into the Mithras cult,
but what was it actually?
The idea that Mithras had 12 disciples may have
come from a mural in which Mithras is surrounded by twelve signs of the Zodiac.
The idea that Mithras had 12 disciples may have
come from a mural in which Mithras is surrounded by the twelve signs of the zodiac.
The dragon devouring its own tail represents the endless cycle of birth, death and resurrection, which
is older symbolism that may have come to Christianity through the pagan cult of Mithras.
If dying-and-rising gods were plentiful in the first century, why, when the apostle Paul preached Jesus rising from the dead, did the Epicureans and Stoics not remark,“Ah,
just like Horus and Mithras”?
Answer: There are a number of people claiming that the accounts of Jesus as recorded in the New Testament are simply myths borrowed from pagan folklore, such as the stories of Osiris, Dionysus, Adonis,
Attis, and Mithras.