Title: Mithras, the grand deity
Creator: Walt Whitman
Date: Undated
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 marginalia and annotations, 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Editorial note: Grier speculates that this note comes from 1855 (Walt Whitman: Notebooks and Unpublished Manuscripts, ed.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, and Matt Cohen
Mithras, the grand deity of ancient Persians, supposed to be the sun, or god of fire, to whom they paid divine honors
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