Mitra

Mitra (Proto-Indo-Iranian: *mitrás) is the name of an Indo-Iranian divinity that predates the Rigvedic Mitrá and Avestan Mithra.

The names, and some characteristics, of these established deities subsequently influenced other figures:

  1. ^ Sundermann, Werner (2002). "Mithra; iii. in Manichaeism". Encyclopedia Iranica.


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