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follower of Mithras. This gives the added benefit of celebrating Dec 25th with my friends and family since it is the birthday of Mithras (not Jesus, who, according to the Gospels was born during late summer harvest).

other Mithras facts-

1) Hundreds of years before Jesus, according to the Mithraic religion, three Wise Men of Persia came to visit the baby savior-god Mithra, bring him gifts of gold, myrrh and frankincense.

2) Mithra was born on December 25 as told in the “Great Religions of the World”, page 330; “…it was the winter solstice celebrated by ancients as the birthday of Mithraism’s sun god”.c

3) According to Mithraism, before Mithra died on a cross, he celebrated a “Last Supper with his twelve disciples, who represented the twelve signs of the zodiac.

4) After the death of Mithra, his body was laid to rest in a rock tomb.

5) Mithra had a celibate priesthood.

6) Mithra ascended into heaven during the spring (Passover) equinox (the time when the sun crosses the equator making night and day of equal length).


source for facts - http://jdstone.org/cr/files/mithraschristianity.html


Now I can relax and join in with the believers..... whew!