This figure is often depicted accompanied by two torch-bearers known as Cautes and Cautopates. One of those attendants is thought to stand behind this figure as he aims his bow at a rock which the other kneels below with cupped hands, a scene known as the "water miracle." Another common scene features this god, dagger in one hand and torch in the other, wearing only his Phrygian cap, and is known as the "rock birth." In some cult sites, this figure is depicted dining or shaking hands with Sol, and, like Sol, this figure was often given the epithet invictus. A temple of this figure was known as a spelaeum in Italy and was often built into natural caves alluding to the location of this figure's most famous deed, the taurocthony. For 10 points, name this bull-slaying Roman god, derived from an Iranian deity, whose cult was popular among sold
This figure is often depicted accompanied by two torch-bearers known as Cautes and Cautopates. One of those attendants is thought to stand behind this figure as he aims his bow at a rock which the other kneels below with cupped hands, a scene known as the "water miracle." Another common scene features this god, dagger in one hand and torch in the other, wearing only his Phrygian cap, and is known as the "rock birth." In some cult sites, this figure is depicted dining or shaking hands with Sol, and, like Sol, this figure was often given the epithet invictus. A temple of this figure was known as a spelaeum in Italy and was often built into natural caves alluding to the location of this figure's most famous deed, the taurocthony. For 10 points, name this bull-slaying Roman god, derived from an Iranian deity, whose cult was popular among soldiers in the 1st through 4th centuries AD.
This figure is often depicted accompanied by two torch-bearers known as Cautes and Cautopates.
{Mithras} (accept {Mitra})