Date: April 6th, 2025 4:21 PM
Author: free play
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraeum
These were especially popular rites when the Roman empire was failing and basically kept together solely by military might
I've been told that the "blood libel" is not unlike the tauroctony, but my mentor (Jewish) suggests that it's libel because the practitioners enjoy taking the forms of jews to slander and imperil their communities
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5706280&forum_id=2Elisa#48821211)