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Mithraize en · VERB

Etymology

From Mithra + -ize.

Meanings

1. To convert to or adapt according to Mithraism.
   • But of winged gods one thinks immediately of Eros, not of course the diminished erotic putto, but the great cosmological and generative figure of the Orphics, known also as Phanes or Protogonos, who appears Mithraized in the famous figure at Modena. 1988, Roger Beck, Planetary Gods and Planetary Orders in the Mysteries of Mithras, page 58:
   • Renan said that “if Christianity had been arrested in its progress by any mortal defect, the world would have been Mithraized”. 1922, The American Church Monthly - Volume 11, page 732:
   • Both the solar and lunar years, for example, represented a whole pattern of humiliation and exaltation, later "Mithraized." 2006, Michael Patella, Lord of the Cosmos: Mithras, Paul, and the Gospel of Mark, pages 15- 16:
   • but at the very least we can say that lamblichus drew on a topos that in his own day had become, as it were, Mithraized 2015, Roger Beck, “Soteriology, the Mysteries, and the Ancient Novel: Iamblichus Babyloniaca as a Test-Case”, in La soteriologia dei culti orientali nell'Impero Romano:

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