Mithra

Mithra
God of Covenant and Light
Relief from Taq-e Bostan in Kermanshah Iran. In this relief, Ardashir II is in the middle and to his right is Ahura Mazda and to the left of the king, the god Mithra, with beams of light like the sun emanating from his head in all directions, and he is standing on a sacred lotus flower.[1][2][3]
Avestan	Miθra 𐬨𐬌𐬚𐬭𐬀
Affiliation	The Thirty-Three Deities, Guardians of the Days of the Month, The Twelve Deities
Abode	Mount Hara
Symbol	Sunlight, light, Lion, Cypress tree
Sacred flower	Scarlet Rose
Attributes	God of the Covenant, God of Light and Brightness, God of War, God of Truth, Guardian of the Covenant, Judge of Deeds on the Final Day
Day	16th of each month in the Iranian calendar، Sunday of each week
Mount	Chariot
Gender	Male
Temples	Mithraeum
Festivals	Mehregan, Yalda Night (Birth of Mithra)
Associated deities	Verethragna, Rashnu, Sraosha
Equivalents
Greek	Mithras
Roman	Mitras
Indian Equivalent	Mitra

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Mithra (Avestan: 𐬨𐬌𐬚𐬭𐬀 Miθra; Old Persian: 𐎷𐎰𐎼 Miθraʰ‍) is an ancient Iranian deity (yazata) of covenants, light, oaths, justice, the Sun,^[4] contracts, and friendship.^[5] In addition to being the divinity of contracts, Mithra is also a judicial figure, an all-seeing protector of Truth (Asha), and the guardian of cattle, the harvest, and the Waters.

The Romans attributed their Mithraic mysteries to Zoroastrian Persian sources relating to Mithra. Since the early 1970s, the dominant scholarship has noted dissimilarities between the Persian and Roman traditions, making it, at most, the result of Roman perceptions of Zoroastrian ideas.^[6]