Re: Religious Festivities
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 25, 1998, 16:28 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
> Maybe. It does happen to correspond to the Roman Saturnalia, and the
> Mithraic (?) festival of Sol Invictis (sp?). However, at least one
> source I've read has it being co-incidence.
>From what I've read, the the cult of Mithras and that of Sol Invictus
were two separate religious movements, though I think they were both
quite popular in the military camps.
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