'''Noahite Mithraism''' appears to have been a thing a few different times throughout history. [[Cyrus the Great ]] was a Mithraic Noahite. The Magi who honouredthe birth of Jesus as an Herodian Prince may have been Mithraists. The Paulicians appear to have been of the same Magian/Gnostic/Hanif persuasionMithraists. They also seem to have had a significant influence in the area of the Greater Persian Empire between 651 and 692 AD, and the Paulicians also appear to have been of the same Magian/Gnostic/Hanif persuasion.
In the Roman Province of Tachkastan they followed some sort of Essene Idumeans from whom the Manicheans had seceded from under the influence of Marcionism and Mandaeism. William St. Clair Tisdall prove that they preserved many Gnostic folktales about Jesus Christ such as for example:
