[PDF][PDF] Did the Mithraists Inhale?-A Technique for Theurgic Ascent in the Mithras Liturgy, the Chaldaean Oracles, and some Mithraic Frescoes
RG Edmonds III - Ancient World, 2001 - repository.brynmawr.edu
The so-called Mithras Liturgy, claimed Franz Cumont, is" neither Mithraic, nor a liturgy."
Cumont and the scholars, such as Turcan, who followed him denied that this bizarre text
from the Great Paris Magical Papyrus had anything to do with Mithraism, much less that it
was, as Albrecht Dieterich had claimed in his 1903 study, the liturgical text from an actual
Mithraic ritual. Extrapolating the theology of Mithraism in the Roman Empire from Persian
parallels of questionable date and relevance, Cumont and his followers reconstructed a …
Cumont and the scholars, such as Turcan, who followed him denied that this bizarre text
from the Great Paris Magical Papyrus had anything to do with Mithraism, much less that it
was, as Albrecht Dieterich had claimed in his 1903 study, the liturgical text from an actual
Mithraic ritual. Extrapolating the theology of Mithraism in the Roman Empire from Persian
parallels of questionable date and relevance, Cumont and his followers reconstructed a …