According to Tacitus, Tiridates I, the king of Armenia Went to Rome in 63 AD by land, refusing to pollute the sea. Robert Thomson, Harvard University
On Vanatour on New Year’s Day, arise and bless the coming hours.
On Vanatour on such a day the doors unlatch and deck themselves with winter flowers.
On such a day King Drtad whom the Romans called the Magus, started on his journey west on his black horse sent him by his Mazdean brother the Parthian king, following the sun westward on his dark horse that trailed the year.
He went by land by sand, by shore and over mountain roads to Rome not to pollute the treasures of the sea where Mithra slept, where Mithra kept, the image of the sun, and all the golden swords; not to pollute the place of rest where the sun god slept and from where he comes when Armenians call “Aramazd.
Mher. Mihr, arise and bless the newest day of the New Year”.