1. mithras - Noun
2. Mithras - Proper noun
The sun god of the Persians.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAnd, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think there is one Supreme Being that made and governs the world, whom they call, in the language of their country, Mithras. Thomas More
A college of priests called "tree bearers" (dendrophoroi) cut down a tree, Jaime Alvar, Romanising Oriental Gods: Myth, Salvation and Ethics in the Cults of Cybele, Isis and Mithras, translated by Richard Gordon (Brill, 2008), p. 288–289. Source: Internet
Almost all Mithraea contain statues dedicated to gods of other cults, and it is common to find inscriptions dedicated to Mithras in other sanctuaries, especially those of Jupiter Dolichenus. Source: Internet
Clauss, M., The Roman cult of Mithras, p. 74. Sometimes the cavern is surrounded by a circle, on which the twelve signs of the zodiac appear. Source: Internet
Beck, Roger, "In the Place of the Lion: Mithras in the Tauroctony" in Beck on Mithraism: Collected works with new essays (2004), p. 286 287. The banquet scene features Mithras and the Sol Invictus banqueting on the hide of the slaughtered bull. Source: Internet
Citing Eubulus as his source, Porphyry writes that the original temple of Mithras was a natural cave, containing fountains, which Zoroaster found in the mountains of Persia. Source: Internet