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The Mithras Temple along Hadrian's Wall
by Olga
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| Just south of the famous defence work of Hadrian's Wall stand the remains of a small, unassuming temple which was dedicated to the sun god Mithras. |
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| And this is believed to be Mithras himself, here portrayed astride the Holy Bull which in the Mithras myth he killed and whose blood gave life to the earth. | |
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| Three altar stones stand at the back wall of the temple. Here sacrifices would be made to the 'soldier god'. | |