<please expand, and do answer this question: are all those people really worshipping the sun, or are they there only to see the sun's rays line up to the central avenue?>
- Supposedly this was shut down by the British police, and the site has been closed every solstice for decades.
I saw them this year on CNN
- The British police now allow limited access to the moronic masses at the Stonehenge site at the summer solstice. And with the exception of a few (ho-ho) so-called druids, who are there to bolster their loony ego-trips, very few of them are there for much other than to be stoned out of their faces. There are very few serious British sun-worshippers for fairly obvious reasons and these few are usually to be found where the sun shines i.e. on holiday in the Greek islands, etc... sjc
It seems that the Persian Mithras and the Roman Mithras were not the same God. The Roman soldiers worshipped Mithras in caves which would be an odd form of worship for a sun-god. There is apparently much scholarly debate on this subject.
- there is no end to the oddity of antique syncretism. The most recent book from the Oxford University Press on the subject of Mithra (The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries : Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World, David Ulansey)sees the whole mythos NOT as a Persian dualism but, in fact, as a mythologization (a kind of back-etiology) of late Hellenistic astronomical discoveries about eclipses. Not that it got really great reviews, but Oxford published it, and it's a scholarly as you're likely to find. --MichaelTinkler
Two references for egypt mythology:
http://saxakali.com/COLOR_ASP/listof.htm
http://i-cias.com/e.o/amon.htm
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