An esoteric journey through Mithraic sanctuaries, blood symbolism, initiation, solar mysteries and the survival of the pagan spirit in the West.
Notitiae
A flaw in the dominant narrative or just the usual genealogy?
A theological experiment in Neo-Platonic realism, theology of arithmetic, and teleological metamorphoses of powers in the divine, terrestrial, and chthonic worlds across the cosmic symphony.
Arguments for interpreting the Tomb of the Elephant as a Mithraeum based on architectural archaeology, digital surveying and archaeoastronomy.
We speak with Israel Campos Méndez about questions that continue to divide scholars: what links the Indo-Iranian Mithra to the deity worshipped in the Roman Empire, and what do we really know about the origins of Roman Mithraism?
Libri
Introductio
Press clips
Archaeologists at Doliche are now excavating houses around the vast Mithras temple to learn how people lived beside the sanctuary.
Newsroom
The Mysteries of Mithras is an independent Initiatic Order which is inspired by and uses the allegory of the lost and ancient Mithraic Mysteries also known as Mithraism a previously influential Roman Cult of the same name.
Mysteriesofmithras/sandbox
A place of worship for the Roman god of light Mithras was discovered during archaeological excavations in Trier. This includes a larger relief.
Las excavaciones llevadas a cabo en el yacimiento arqueológico romano de la villa de Mithra, en Cabra (Córdoba), han deparado el excepcional hallazgo de un mitreo, o zona destinada al culto al dios Mithra, cuya estatua fue descubierta hace unos 70 años.
Agencia
On the occasion of the exhibition, the Royal Museum of Mariemont invites five experts from Europe to emulate the research on the cult of Mithras.
An inscription mentioning a speleum decorated by Publilius Ceionius suggests the location of a mithraeum in Cirta, the capital of Numidia.
The Mithraeum of Tazoult / Lambèse is one of the best preserved Mithras’s temples in Africa.
The Niasar Cave, غار نیاسر, was a temple probably devoted to Iranian Mithras that dates back to the early Partian era.
There are references to two places of worship from Dieburg, whereby the Mithraeum, discovered in 1926.
Tauroctony from Carnuntum
Two-sided relief from Stockstadt
Rock-crystal tauroctony gem from Paris
Cup of Eutyches from Martigny
Tauroctony on yellow carnelian from Udine
Altar to Deo Invicto Regi from Bandorf
Getic helmet from Coțofenești
Tauroctony relief from Ozd
Aion (?) from Janiculum Hill
Sententia
Of course, the Moon’s axis passes through Cancer (summer solstice, the days shorten)…
Aion is 545 I checked
A revision of this: [ref:6a071346a6001]
CIMRM 2170 [ref:69cac135b3073]
There was an actual (charred) pinecone found in the floor at Carrawburgh. Understandably hard to tag…
I was just SO excited over this one. XOXO
Many thanks, Kutalmış. The record has now been corrected and your 2017 publication added as the original reference…
Dear Amicus: as early as the 3rd century AD, Plotinus wrote that the soul was divided into a lower and a higher part: ".…
on Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026
Thank you, Alejandro. I’ve just added a link to the article for anyone who’s interested.
