Chimerical Pirate Notions

Jan 21, 2015 04:07

Note to self: Do something with the notion that Mithraism began as a secret rite amongst the Cilician pirates.

"They also offered strange sacrifices of their own at Olympus, and celebrated there certain secret rites, among which those of Mithras continue to the present time, having been first instituted by them."
-- Plutarch, Life of Pompey, 24:5

For extra fun, the "Olympus" Plutarch mentions is not the Greek mountain, but a different mountain in Lycia, where burned the eternal gas fire known as ... Chimaera. Nothing beats the classics.

myth, occult, eliptony, history

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