"Mitra (Proto-Indo-Iranian: *mitrĂ¡s) is the name of an Indo-Iranian divinity from which the names and some characteristics of Rigvedic MitrĂ¡ and Avestan Mithra derive.
The names (and occasionally also some characteristics) of these two older figures were subsequently also adopted for other figures:" - (en.wikipedia.org 07.12.2019)
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