Fw: Re: [tied] Re: Frankish origins

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

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> >
> > It seems no one has considered a possible Sarmatian origin for
> > Roman Mithraism.
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithras

From my posting you left out:
'Large recruitment of ethnic Sarmatians (from either side of the limes) in the Roman armies would tie in with that.
'

> 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?

I think they should have considered it before starting to tend towards any particular belief.


Torsten