From: gknysh
Message: 65293
Date: 2009-10-24
>****GK: Facile respondetur. Quia necesse est probare per quocunque modo quod Germania ab "Odine" fundata. Et si prima via (a Snorri immediate sumpta) non potest ad finem optatam intellectum ducere, tunc aliam invenitur, mediatam, sive per Ariovistum (cuius origo apud incolas Scythiae remotae queritur), sive per aliquem Maeotem temporibus Mithridaticis proximum, sive per aliquem alium ignotum regem sarmaticum (et hic utile est loqui de sarmatis miscendis sive proto-"Germanis" populis, sive aliis propinquis finibus Germaniae.) Intentio semper idem, per nullo argumento refutanda, usque ad finem vitae si non in aeternum per aspera defendenda.*****
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> --- 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
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> 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?
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> Ned Smith
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