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![But, on the open-work relief at Housteads, Mithras is apparently identified – and traditionally – with Orphic Phanes, born from an egg, which is identified with Helios/the Sun (Macr. Sat. I 18. 12 [= OF, p. 249, n° 237 Kern]). Like Phanes, this Mithras Saecularis, in brandishing his torch, lights the universe on this monument. The signs of the Zodiac which surround the god represent the seasons of the year or the twelve sideral stages of the circuit of the sun. Concerning the Sun, the PseudoClément author of the Homilies (VI 10, p. 110, 10–12 Rehm) exactly affirms that this one “is called Mithras (Meithran) from the fact that he replenishes entirely the circular course of the year”. In effect, where Basilides, recognized by means of the isopsephy the 365 days of the annual cycle in the word, Abrasax, he found the same value, under the form of Meithras, in the very name of Mithras. In this regard, the Mithraic iconography confirms well for us that the tauroctony is responsible for the zodiacal cycle. Not only is it depicted within the cycle or under the orbit of the constellations, but in the relief of Trier one sees a Mithras who seems to make the sky turn, uoluentem sidera Mithram, as Claudian (Laud. Stil. I 63) was to say.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x5ba2cm5nwrmkwkdhsbdfoay/bafkreidgx7nwozu7p6d5y2bplnqlfrkcoghhkal46fehrjq7lvr6i2hvwm@jpeg)
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