Mithra
c. 1400 BCE – 650 CEattested
Iran
- Iranian
God of the contract and of the light before sunrise, named in a Hittite–Mitanni treaty around 1380 BCE, one of the oldest datable appearances of any Indo-Iranian god. A Roman mystery cult later took his name and very little else.
Known for
- the contract personified
- named in a Bronze Age treaty
- borrowed by a Roman mystery cult
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.