Summary: The (Re)creation of the Myth of Mithras In absence of oriental or classical texts referring to a myth related to the god Mithras, scholars are divided in the interpretation of the iconography of the cult in Roman period. Since the pioneer studies of the Belgian scholar Franz Cumont, the dominant interpretation was that the illustrated panels and the tauroctony, bull’s sacrifice by Mithras, were the narratological icons of Mithras’ story. Another research stream, especially dynamic in the last decades of 20th Century, interpreted the scene of Mithras killing the bull as a stellar map, all the iconic elements being constellations or figures related to the planetary world. No less sophisticated is the newest proposal that iden...