Note 890 — Chapter XII · THE WORSHIP OF MITHRAS

M. Cumont, op. cit. I. p. 82, says that the sex is left undecided, so as to show that Infinite Time, the Supreme God according to him of the Mithraic pantheon, can produce by himself. This is certainly not the case with one of the statues given among his own monuments (op. cit. II. p. 213, Fig. 44), or that lately recovered from the Mithraeum at Sidon, for which see Pottier, “La Collection Louis de Clercq,” Conférences au Musée Guimet, Bibl. de Vulg. t. XIX. 1906, Pl. opp. p. 236, or P.S.B.A. 1912, Pl. XIX, Fig. 18, or Cumont, Les Mystères de Mithra, Bruxelles, 1913, p. 235.