Fw: Re: [tied] Re: Frankish origins

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

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> It seems no one has considered a possible Sarmatian origin for Roman Mithraism.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithras

Since the wikipedia article to which you linked indicates that modern scholarship tends towards the belief that Mithraism originated in the Graeco-Roman world rather than in the Iranian why should they consider a Sarmatian origin?

Ned Smith