At Rome’s twilight, amid political upheaval and Christian ascendancy, Vettius Agorius Praetextatus embodied pagan intellect, virtue, and authority across senatorial, military, and mystical spheres.
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By reading Orphic theology together with Eleusinian ritual practice, the mysteries emerge as a structured mystagogy of transformation:…
This article revisits the Mithraeum of S. Maria Capua Vetere, one of the most complete and artistically refined Mithraic sanctuaries in the Campanian region, situating it within its archaeological, iconographic, and ritual-historical contexts.
In his first book, Fahim Ennouhi sheds light on the cult of Mithras in Roman Africa. A marginal and elitist phenomenon, confined to restricted circles and largely absent from local religious dynamics, yet revealing.
Restoring the Mysteries: A Conversation with Peter Mark Adams on his new book ‘Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras’.
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Archaeologists at Doliche are now excavating houses around the vast Mithras temple to learn how people lived beside the sanctuary.
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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.
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Over the last century or so, a great deal has been said about the god Mithras and his mysteries, which became known to the European world mainly through his Roman cultus during the Imperial Period.
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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.
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The Mithraeum of Inveresk, south of Musselburgh, East Lothian, is the first found in Scotland, and the earliest securely dated example from Britain.
The Mithraeum of Kunzing was an underground building, oriented east-west. The entrance was probably on the east.
The Barberini Mithraeum was discovered in 1936 in the garden of the Palazzo Barberini, owned by Conte A. Savorgnan di Brazza.
In the 1900s a model Mithraeum was built in Saalburg in the mistaken belief that there was an original temple of Mithras in an ancient Roman building.
Busto de Livia
Tauroctony from Arshawi-Kibar
Tauroctony from Aelius Maximus of Turda
Floor mosaic of Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale
Cilindric arula from Cabrera de Mar
Cautopates de Bordeaux
Coin of the Kushan Emperor Kanishka I
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Altar of Firmidius Severinus from Geneva
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Thank you, Jaime, for your clarification of this monument, previously identified as Mithraic…
No, I think it's not fun, but really superstition. The Romans all wore amulets, often with a phallus and a hand…
Gracias a ti por unirte. Abrazos!
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Gracias a ti, Alex. Me alegra que te resulte interesante.
Thank you for the beautiful image and the information. I haven’t had the chance to visit it yet…
Papa, the Pope in Latin, would be short for Pater Patrum 🤔. It’s a clever statement…
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Spent the day trying to find a better image of the tauroctony surround on the right in the case..…
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this capital from the cloister of the abbey of Monreal in sicily dates from the 12th century and is very disturbing…
Interesting… but I think there might be a mix-up here. I mean everyone is entitled to their own…
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