Forerunners and rivals of Christianity

by Francis Legge

[836]. Op. cit. II. p. 105, no. 62; p. 116, no. 131.

[837]. Op. cit. II. p. 96, nos. 17, 20; p. 117, no. 139; p. 145, no. 354.

[838]. Pindar, Isthm. V. 1, where the Sun is said to be the son of Theia.

[839]. Cumont, T. et M. I. p. 225, and n. 1; cf. Darmesteter, Ormuzd et Ahriman, p. 65.

[840]. Cumont, T. et M. I. p. 231.

[841]. Op. cit. I. p. 200.

[842]. Op. cit. I. pp. 304-306. The best and clearest example of these scenes is perhaps that given in the bas-reliefs surrounding the Tauroctony in the Mithraeum at Osterburken. See Op. cit. II. p. 350 (Monument 246).

[843]. Op. cit. II. Fig. 1 of Mon. 246 (p. 350).

[844]. Op. cit. I. pp. 159 sqq.

[845]. Cumont, op. cit. II. p. 395, and Fig. 315.