Mithraic Worship
Mithraism, also known as the Mithraic mysteries or the Cult of Mithras, was a Roman Empire, Roman mystery religion centered on the god Mithras. Although inspired by Iranian peoples, Iranian worship of the Zoroastrian divinity (''yazata'') Mithra, the Roman Mithras is linked to a new and distinctive imagery, with the level of continuity between Persian and Greco-Roman practice debated. The mysteries were popular among the Imperial Roman army from about the 1st to the 4th-century Common Era, CE. Worshippers of Mithras had a complex system of seven grades of initiation and communal ritual meals. Initiates called themselves ''syndexioi'', those "united by the handshake". They met in underground Roman temple, temples, now called ''mithraea'' (singular ''mithraeum''), which survive in large numbers. The cult (religious practice), cult appears to have had its center in ancient Rome, Rome, and was popular throughout the Western Roman Empire, western half of the empire, as far sou ...
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