Talk:Phanes (mythology)

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Is that really Roman Mithras, "the Bull-Slayer" (2nd cty BC -- 5th cty AD), or rather Persian Mithra of the Zoroastrian (before Christ)?
Jorge Stolfi 04:02, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)

• Regarding your question on whether Phanes is linked with the Persian Mitras or the Roman Mithras the current scholarly opinion seems to be that mitras wasn't the basis for Mithras, although given the Roman tactic of Syncretism it's possibly that they borrowed elements of him for their miThras - the Roman version is the one that makes him linked with the 'world egg', and certainly the persian version isn't linked with the sun (because of the Persian Ahura Mazda). Mithras is depicted emergng from the 'world' egg on the University of Newcastle website: found here

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I see no discussion of the *direct* reference to "Greek mythology", although this is rather questionable. Phanes is no mythological figure. I would suggest to first link to Orpheus, 2. to Neoplatonism (important) and only in 3d place to mythology, or leave that out altogether. Obviously the lemma has to be expanded also. Bibh wkp 20:37, 16 October 2006 (UTC)