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Word: mithra (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gwyon, Wyatt's father, finds gin more consoling than the Protestantism he preaches. When he is not hitting the bottle, he soaks up the rites of non-Christian faiths. One Christmas he comes unhinged, proclaims the gospel of Mithra from the pulpit after sacrificing a black bull. His horrified congregation packs him off to a sanitarium calted Happymount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Counterfeiters | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

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