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Cautes and Cautopates are torch-bearers depicted attending the god Mithras in the icons of ancient Roman cult of Mithraism, known as Tauroctony. Cautes holds his torch raised up, and Cautopates holds his torch downward. ==Interpretation== In Mithraic images Mithras either represents the sun, or is a close friend of the sun god Helios or Sol Invictus (Latin: ''the invincible sun'') with whom Mithras dines. So attendants Cautes and Cautopates are supposed to either represent the stations of sunrise and sunset respectively, or perhaps the spring and autumn equinoxes, or equivalently the ascending (spring) and descending (autumnal) nodes of the Sun’s apparent path on the celestial sphere. If eclipses of the sun and moon formed part of Mithraic symbolism, they could also represent the ascending and descending nodes where the Moon crosses the ecliptic.
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