Abstract

This article aims to improve and complete some reconstructive proposals already existing that relate the myth of the Roman God Mithras' birth from a rock with other traditions, namely some Hittite myths or some legends from Minor Asia. By including data from Hittite Theogony and Rig- Veda and integrating them in a set together with the iconographic information from Roman Mithraism and Sassanid Persia, I propose an Indo-European origin for the myth of the God born from a rock.

Highlights

  • This article aims to improve and complete some reconstructive proposals already existing that relate the myth of the Roman God Mithras' birth from a rock with other traditions, namely some Hittite myths or some legends from Minor Asia

  • By including data from Hittite Theogony and RigVeda and integrating them in a set together with the iconographic information from Roman Mithraism and Sassanid Persia, I propose an Indo-European origin for the myth of the God born from a rock

  • Si bien la fuerza argumental de la línea comparativa permanece intacta tras los trabajos de Burkert, de Jong y Mastrocinque y refuerza la idea de que el mitraísmo romano es una combinación de elementos tradicionales indoeuropeos, más elementos órficos y neoplatónicos, hay algunos elementos de la comparación que permanecen sin explotar y otros que quizá no estén bien integrados en la comparación

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Introduction

This article aims to improve and complete some reconstructive proposals already existing that relate the myth of the Roman God Mithras' birth from a rock with other traditions, namely some Hittite myths or some legends from Minor Asia. El nacimiento de una montaña es la constante de casi todas estos mitos: entre los hititas es la montaña Kanzura, el monte Diorfo en Pseudo-Plutarco, el monte Agdo en Arnobio, la famosa Petra genetrix en la iconografía del nacimiento del Mitra romano.

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