Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27447621-20160428221352/@comment-25936766-20160618011852

SpiritedDreaming wrote: Mithras. Found him, Mithras, the roman god around which Mithraism was born.

According to both pages, he was portrayed as born from a rock as an adult, and the Wikipedia article mentions slaughtering a bull and having a banquet with the sun god as "iconic scenes". Not sure if it helps, personally only the "born from a rock" part could've anything to do with a shooting star.

Do note that I'm just talking about the Roman Mithras, not the persian or zoroastrian.