Mystery Mitra

The book of the outstanding Belgian researcher of the ancient religions of Franz Kumon, who is the largest specialist in the field of the history of antiquity and ancient oriental civilizations, is devoted to one of the most mysterious phenomena in the history of oriental beliefs - the spread in the beginning of the 1st century. n. e. On the territory of the late Roman Empire of the cult of the Indo -Aryan god Mitra. Appearing in ancient Iran at the end of the 2nd millennium BC. e., this cult quickly spread to a vast territory from Armenia to Central Europe, having a very significant impact on the appearance of pre -Christian Europe. The book discusses in detail the cosmogony of mitraism, ritual and mysterious practice, as well as the influence of mitraism on the spiritual and political life of the Roman Empire