A New World Monument to Mithras - Old News documentary

symbolically as important as the horse and rider. In Hamlet’s Mill, we find the ash tree
Yggdrasil is the tree which reaches up to heaven and is known as the world pillar (de
Santillana 1969:223,233). Graves tells us Woden/Gwydion used the ash tree as his
steed (1966:168). It is around this world axis that the entire heaven rotates. Saturn/
Mithras is the governor of the axis and the heavens and it is this steed who carries him
round and round the heavens. It carries him in his daily and annual cycles represented
by the Dioscuri. The image of the bird is ill defined, but could be Mithras’ ubiquitous
raven or crow.
Figure 17. Map of the Roman Anatolia showing the city of Trebizond, second century CE. Frequent wars
and alliances redrew the borders of the many minor kingdoms shown here.
Once again referring to Graves, we find the Ogam letters and the associated trees
give us a clue regarding the identity of the tree on the coin. Graves identifies the crow
with Mercury and Mercury’s tree is the Hazel. However he proposes an alternative tree
for Mercury as being the ash tree. The RIA Dictionary tells us that the letter N, Nin, can
be defined as an ash tree (Quinn 1983:478). George Calder defines Nin as the son of
Bel (1917:372). The name Bel appears directly under the sun god of Anubis Cave 2
and his name is written in Libyan for all to read and understand. Mithraists did not hide
the name of the god they worshipped, only his teachings. Pater means father and he is
the father of all of the other Mithraists. It is the name of the seventh grade of Mithraism
and his planet is Saturn. Saturn/Mithras controls the world axis and its cycles. The
Dioscuri represent the cycles of the solstices and the equinoxes. These cycles are four
corners of the cubic world axis.
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