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If Mithra was born on the 25th December why do Zoroastrians honour him in August/September?
Mithra originated in Persia as did Zoroastrianism.

Zoroastrians still honour him on the 16th day of each month and the whole of the 7th month in their calender which equates to the the 21st August to the 21st September in the Gregorian calender.

Mithra was first recorded in Rome in approx 110ce by Lucius Plutarchus, Mithra was loved by the Roman Infantry and as a male only religions it spread all over the Roman Empire.

December 25th the festival of Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, "the birthday of the unconquered sun." the date after the winter solstice was never connected officially with Mithra in Rome.

Mithra was born from a rock, all the crops and useful animals emerged from a bull he killed. He was charged with protecting the first human couple and rode a chariot out to sea to take his place with the immortals.

106 year old scholarly study of Mithra
http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/mom/mom0 2.htm
Zoroastrian calender
http://ahura.thelalis.com/#

Please do don’t past links to websites that base their research on Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code or Zeitgeist but any scholarly research welcomed.
@ Maurog II - I’ve provided a 106 year old scholary study which says Mithra was never offically connected with Dec 25th (maybe some soilders did but not Rome) what evidence have you got?
@ Maurog II - I’m not a wiki knocker, I like that website and appreciate the effort people make to typing out info from scholary sources onto it.

But one line which doesn’t even quote a reference - poor show surprised you used it

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*applause* I too have never found a a scholarly reference connecting Mithra with Dec 25. (Although I am familiar with the festival of the Unconquered Sun) You’ve stumbled onto one of the great urban legends of religion. unfortunately, the more it gets repeated, the more people are convinced it must be true even though they’ve seen no historical evidence for it.

Same issue with the Easter/Eostre connection. We’re not even sure the goddess Eostre existed, much less when her celebration might have been. And all of that aside, Easter would still have been celebrated in southern Europe long before anyone had encountered this out-of-the-way goddess.

Nightwind: Mwa ha ha! | Oct 21, 2009

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that isnt correct and they dont…

JESUS IS THE ONE WE CELEBRATE NOW ON THAT DAY…whats the problem?
Fireball | Oct 21, 2009

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Let me borrow an atheists line, "There ain’t no Mithra."
imrod | Oct 21, 2009

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Thank you.

Folks who use Isis and Virgin in the same sentence are dingbats as well.
?Machine Head? | Oct 21, 2009

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Who told you he was born on 25th? He wasn’t!

Sol Invictus, the Unconquered Sun was. He is associated with Mithras of Mithraism, not Mithra of Zoroastrianism.

It’s the birthday of Mithras, who is a sun god like Helios.
Not of Mithra who is more like a supreme deity of Truth and Judgement.
Maurog II | Oct 21, 2009

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There’s a whole lot of that "the Jesus myth is copied from other religions" crowd who could use a lesson on how to use Snopes.
Rockadayjohnny | Oct 21, 2009

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Mithra is born out of folklore. We dealing with Reality here.
conundrum | Oct 21, 2009

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MIthra wasn’t ever believed in the Zoroastrian religion to be born Dec 25. I actually had the rare opportunity to meet and actual Zoroastrian. Rare I know since there is only about 100,000 left. He was of course from Iran. Do you know Zoroastrians actually believe in Jesus Christ. (not necessarily as a Savior but a King). It is their belief the 3 Magi (wisemen) were Zoroastrian who traveled to the kings birth. Epiphany is part of their history and celebrations
titania_woodland_fairy_queen | Oct 21, 2009

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That is the month of Virgo, astrologically. Any meaning there? You’re lots more studious than I am; it’s lucky I studied so much in the first 50 years of my life, because I intend to spend the rest of my days having fun!
DiggerRama | Oct 21, 2009