Re: Brithenig

Am 04/04 14:33  John Cowan yscrifef:
> BP Jonsson wrote:
>
> > Constantinople does eventually fall to the
> > Turks, but instead of turning the Hagia Sophia into a Mosque they install a
> > sapling of the Adur Bursen-Mihr there!
>
> What would that be?  I am not familiar with Turkish religion from the
> *jahiliyyah* "period of ignorance".
>
If my memory of my reading serves me correct, Mihr is that Immortal
better known in European languages as Mithras.  Sounds like the Turks
converted to the Good Religion to me.

- andrew.
--
Andrew Smith, Intheologus                       hobbit@earthlight.co.nz

   The sacred writers have clothed God in a human form, like gleaming
  amber or fire, and have spoken of its eyes, and ears, and hair, and
 face, and hands, and wings, and pinions, and arms, and back, and feet.
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