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Mithras, the grand deity

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  • Title: Mithras, the grand deity
  • Date: Undated
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: duk.00681
  • Source: Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Transcribed from digital images of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: Grier speculates that this note comes from 1855 (Walt Whitman: Notebooks and Unpublished Manuscripts, ed. Edward F. Grier [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 6:2030).
  • Contributors to digital file: Lauren Grewe Nicole Gray Ty Alyea Matt Cohen Ashlyn Stewart
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Mithras, the grand deity." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 23 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: duk.00681.xml (TEI)

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Whitman's hand blue double overline and underline
Highlighting yellow background with top and bottom border
Paste-on gray box with black borders
Laid in white box with black borders
Erasure white text with dark gray background
Overwritten brown with strikethrough
[begin surface 1] Mithras, the grand deity of ancient Persians, supposed to be the sun, or god of fire, to whom they paid divine honors Oræomaedes kaaba the Bedowee Look at theological dictionary [begin surface 2]
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