Roman Pagan celebrations in December hold major similarities to modern-day Christmas festivities, but how did they come to be?

Did the Romans believe in a god? What gods did Romans have? What did Roman soldiers believe in? Why did soldiers worship Mithras? Key words ANITA: The Romans in Scotland; gods and beliefs.

Mithras is somewhat of a mystery among the gods of the Roman pantheon, as he appeared in historical records in the late first century CE then just as quickly vanished by the fourth century CE.

In ancient Kurdish languages, Yelda meant "created light," referring to the birth of Mithra, the sun and light god.

In the same way, the Persian god Mithras was popular with the Roman legions – many of whose soldiers had served in Persia – and shrines to him have been found in Britain, Syria, and across ...

[In the Roman Empire] you have an enormous set of ... which Christianity would have to deal was the cult of the Persian God, Mithras. Now this too, like, Christianity, was a rather late arriving ...

rebirth and the Roman gods Mithras and Mercury. Eggshell fragments have been found before, usually in Roman graves, but this is the "only complete Roman egg known in Britain" and "a genuinely ...