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<p>The link is : <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lictor">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lictor</a></p>
<p>The only link to the Mithras cult I found was in Liddell &
Scott's dictionary but without any specifics; I didn't find links
to Mithras elsewhere.<br>
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<p><i>ταυροκτόνος</i>, "bull killing" even suggests autarch(ktonos).</p>
<p>According to Wiki ( <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauroctony">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauroctony</a> ) "The
tauroctony should not be confused with a "<a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurobolium"
title="Taurobolium">taurobolium</a>", which was an actual
bull-killing cult act performed by initiates of the Mysteries of <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Mater"
class="mw-redirect" title="Magna Mater">Magna Mater</a>, and has
nothing to do with the Mithraic Mysteries.</p>
<p>The sacrificial symbolism is clear.<br>
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Stockhoff:<br>
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<p>I don't see "lictor" mentioned in the wiki---do you have a
specific link to that?</p>
<p>Nevertheless, the Mithraic cult has always been suggestive of
similarities to both early Xtianity, which is useful to Wolfe,
and to Severian's "secret history." It's closely allied with a
branch of Roman government and with Rome. A sword figures
prominently in its symbology. Severian becomes an outcast when
he gives Thecla a blade, and he becomes Autarch when he kills
the Autarch with a blade. He is often blood-covered, as with the
sacrificial blood of a bull (sun symbol), but never
blood-stained. <br>
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<p>Cultists proceeded through grades like Masons to become Leos,
and lions have always been linked with the sun. The Mithraic leo
has been taken as Aion, who is the Greek god of eternity or
"unbounded time." Severian's going to Yesod and returning as the
New Sun literally enacts this elevation to Leo. <br>
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<p>I had not realized that "mitra" could be read as "covenant."
That's suggestive too. It's always been a mystery to me that
Severian's sword (The Sword of the Lictor) belongs to a lictor
that is never mentioned in the text, but if the lictor is a
servant of a secret god with whom a covenant is held, then ...
it fits.</p>
<p>Hidden in plain sight, as usual.</p>
<p>Thanks!<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/17/2018 9:10 AM, Ab de Vos
wrote:<br>
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<p>By chance I had to look up the Greek word for servant
(υπηρέτης). The "servant of the eleven" in Athens was the
executioner or his servant. Servant is also the greek
translation of Lictor. The lictor is an official of the roman
state but the term is also used for servitor in the cult cult
of Mithras.</p>
<p><img alt=""
src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Mithra%26Antiochus.jpg/220px-Mithra%26Antiochus.jpg"
class="thumbimage" data-file-width="300"
data-file-height="443" moz-do-not-send="true" height="325"
width="220">Mithras-Helios, with solar rays and in Iranian
dress,<sup id="cite_ref-iranica_105-0" class="reference"><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraism#cite_note-iranica-105"
moz-do-not-send="true">[104]</a></sup> with Antiochus I of
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commagene"
class="mw-redirect" title="Commagene" moz-do-not-send="true">Commagene</a>.
(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Nemrut"
title="Mount Nemrut" moz-do-not-send="true">Mt. Nemrut</a>,
1st Century BCE)</p>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraism"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraism</a><br>
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