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- books?vid=ISBN0-19-506788-6 quote "Cumont’s ... argument was straightforward and may be summarized succinctly: the name of the god of the cult, Mithras, is the Latin form of the name of an ancient Iranian god, Mithra; in addition, the Romans believed that their cult was connected with Persia ; therefore we may assume that Roman Mithraism is nothing other than the Iranian cult of Mithra transplanted into the Roman Empire.".