12-04-2012, 06:08 AM
Just a quick thought - Porphry wrote an essay called On the Cave of the Nymphs, which is apparently about that passage of Homer that David mentioned, but also concerns the origins of Mithraism. Was there not also a mithraic grade called a nymphus?
Might the line about naked nymphs actually be a coded reference to the subject having passed through the initiation to the second grade of the Mithras cult? That would be an achievement to list beside the others, perhaps...
Might the line about naked nymphs actually be a coded reference to the subject having passed through the initiation to the second grade of the Mithras cult? That would be an achievement to list beside the others, perhaps...
Nathan Ross
