Talk:Mitra

message: : I would like to move the material on the Persian/Zoroastrian Mitra into the Mithra article.  From a comparative standpoint, I see no good reason for treating the Vedic Mitra and the Zoroastrian Mithra together.  There's no doubt that the deva and the yazata are the same in prehistoric origin, but by the time we get to verifiable history they are two separate deities with distinct developments.  The two articles should certainly recognize and link to each other, and have similar documentation of the common linguistic origin of the names, but it is excessively confusing to treat them together and intertwined. 
: Anybody feel differently? RandomCritic 08:46, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposal

message: :The vedic portion of the Mitra article a) is not well developed and b) doesn't say anything that isn't already in Mitra-Varuna. Note also that Mitra-Varuna is a redirect to Varuna. In other words, even though (as Amir85 points out) Vedic Mitra is more important than Mithra, there so little information on Vedic Mitra, that a Vedic-only Mitra article might as well be a redirect Mitra-Varuna (and thence to Varuna).
:As RandomCritic points out, there was little, if any, comparison between the divinities in the old Mitra article. That all three divinities (Mitra[-Varuna]/Mithra/Mithras) may have originated from the same *mitra is all very well, but beyond that they really are different divinities. Incidentally, there are also several other divinities that also (at least linguistically) derive from *mitra, including the Armenian Mher, Manichean Mytr/Maitreya and Buddhist Maitreya. These are just as unsuitable for lumping together with *mitra as Mitra/Mithra/Mithras are. 
:In view of these two points, Dbachmann's suggestion for leaving Mitra as the page for comparison is a good compromise. Since all of them will be listed, and text for each will be short (because there is not very much in the way of similarities between them), the article will in effect also be a disambiguation page. The dablink at the top of each of the pages would thus read: This article is on the {Vedic Mitra[-Varuna] | [Yazata] Mithra | Roman deity Mithras | ... }. For other divinities cognate with the proto-Indo-Iranian *mitra, see mitra. 
:-- Fullstop 07:31, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: 1. Response to Possibilities

message: Are we sure mitra is male?Geni 21:43, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: yes. dab (ᛏ) 09:24, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Yup.  Bacchiad 06:48, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Gender

message: :In Vlachs folklore in Slovakia there is a holliday "Na Mitra", On the Mitra day. It was live holliday about 100 years ago, now it is known mainly from folklore festivals showing old Vlachs pastoralist culture. During this the chief shepherd (called "bača" [pron. like "butchah"] (or Mitra?)) with high cap and long hard coat from sheep fur together with his fellow shepherds ("valach" "valasi") come from the hill pastures down to the village and they start to hold a small festivity. This would happen in october.--Marcel Kosko 12:47, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Mitra in current Slovakia folklore

message: : On my browser, at least, this infobox summarizing the qualities of a Hindu deity does not play well with other parts of the page, creating a large empty white space and pushing everything else out of the way.  I've moved it down to the bottom pending resolution of this problem. RandomCritic 10:28, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Deity box

message: I've removed all of the Wikiproject flags.  This is basically a disambiguation page; it doesn't need to be on the radar of all these projects (none of which is actually going to do anything with it anyway). RandomCritic 17:32, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit talk page

message: I would like to make the gender orientation of the name Mitra a bit more clear. As a first name, Mitra is for females but can be a last name for both males and females. 
One of the many meanings of Mitra is that it was a Hindu god of friendship and alliance. This god was a punisher of falsehood and brought rain upon the earth. Mitra was also a supporter of heaven and earth. There is already an explanation that Mitra was a god of sun but I also wanted to go into little more detail about his role as a Hindu god and what it means to be a god of the sun. The last thing I wanted to add was about how Mitra and Varuna were two gods that were seen as twins in the beginning and how they were seen as one god at many times. Together, they balanced one another's powers and kept the universe in balance. Since Mitra has to do with friendship, his friendship with Varuna plays a big role in explaining Mitra.  This all goes under the Hindu belief of what kind of a god Mitra was.  
Mitra Fazel (talk) 21:18, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  More meanings of Mitra and Confusion of Gender 

message: Why does the name begin with an asterisk in the opening? It isn't explained in the text and it seems to disappear and re-appear throughout the article.168.158.220.3 (talk) 20:38, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: ^ Same question. What's the convention and can we explain it in the body text? Scoundr3l (talk) 00:13, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Asterisk 

message: In Slavic there is also "omot" or "motat" (to bind) in Slovene language (and dialects); motnya is also a "disorder", "to be wrong"(your action is "binded", in a wound cord, a Gordian knot). (transmutation in Persian and Slavic went from Mit to Mot). It is INTERESTING that "etymology" gives all possible (even non linguistically related words) variants of so called term Mitra, including nonsense about German "walls", but never about Slavic & Persian (which was in fact always related to each other, geographically & linguistically, mythologically) explanation. All i can say is: occult nonsense!
Mitra indeed shares etymology with a "friend", but the correct linguistic roots are: Mit - मिथ्  which means "couple" (this is where the 'friend' comes from; "to meet" somebody u know) and Ra र, which is "ray" (radiant, solar, light,...). From this comes "a Friend" मित्र. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.210.228.86 (talk) 20:43, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology