Mithra
The ancient God of friendship, treaty, and agreement. Who has been the sun, moon, preserver of truth and everything else. Vedic Mythra was always twinned with Varuna and as Mithra-Varuna, they were the movers and shakers of the cosmos, before Indra came along.
Interestingly, stone tablets (1400 bc) of Mittani kingdoms (ancient northern Syria) contain invocations to Mitra and other Vedic gods, in a language similar to Sanskrit, dubbed as proto-Indo-Aryan. Zoroastrianism, the ancient Persian religion, has Mitra twinned with Ahura, their top God.
Whilst the worship of Mithra was overtaken by that of Indra and the others in Vedic India, Mithra found his popularity through a cult (Mithraism) amongst the Roman soldiers up until the early centuries of the Christian era, till it was subsumed by Christianity when the emperor Constantine made it the state religion.
There is a legend of Mithra-Varuna, where impressed by Urvashi, they end up as parents to sages Agastya and Vashishta, leaving some folk to wonder if they were more than “just friends”!
https://iranicaonline.org/articles/mithra-i
https://youtu.be/Xv5GJ6bo_HQ
https://indianexpress.com/article/parenting/blog/storytelling-lgbt-themes-in-hindu-mythology-5273332/
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