[[contracts-treaty]] [[handshake]] --- **This page is a bit vauge, it will be moved to [[pii-mitha-mitra]] and its subcategories.** ## Etymology - from PIE `*mei̯-` ("give in exchange") [226] (cf. the discussion in Mayrhofer 2006 [[klein-et2017-20]] ## Scholarship [[brown-p1971]]p37, demons [[lincoln1977b]] [[lincoln1982-1991-mithra]] [[sick1996]] [[kaliff-sundqvist2006]] [[r-beck2006]] [[anghelina2013]] [[r-beck2013]] [[t-stepanov2013]] [[r-gordon2016]] [[p-adrych-etal2017]] Iconography images ## Epithets - Had the epithets "giver of ***[`xᵛarənah`](khvarenah.md)***" and "giver of ***xšaθra-***" (Yt.10.16). ## By Branch ### Iranian ### Roman [[sauer1996]] Decline of Mithraism in Rome ## External Links [Tauroctony](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauroctony)