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.
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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?
Labors of Hercules as planetary zodiacal initiations: model mystagogy. The alchemy of Herculean labors.
Lenni George on Hekate’s development across ancient traditions, from mystery cults to magical practice and philosophical thought.
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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.
Roman building on the Aventine between the eastern side of S. Saba and Via Salvator, probably used as a Mithraeum at the end of the 4th century, with a long corridor bearing three semicircular niches and a large external basin.
Late Roman Mithraeum beneath a fourth-century church, preserving one of the most extensive cycles of Mithraic wall paintings ever discovered.
In the second half of the 4th century, a Mithraic temple was established within an earlier spring sanctuary at Septeuil, where the cult of the nymphs and Mithraic practices appear to have coexisted.
To date, there is no evidence that the so-called Mithraeum of Burham was ever used to worship the sun god.
Sandstone tauroctony relief from Petronell-Carnuntum
Parthian dipinto from Dura-Europos
Fragmentary tauroctony from Kostolac
Fragment of a Mithraic tauroctony from Dacia
Mithras birth from Petronell
Fragmentary tauroctony from Solin
Sandstone tauroctony relief from Carnuntum
Two-register tauroctony from Philippopolis
Altar of Manius Cretinus from Gherla
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Thank you, Alejandro. I’ve just added a link to the article for anyone who’s interested.
I believe that the top left corner does not come from this relief: there is no Sun facing the Moon…
Nonne speluncae instrumenta communicationis socialis et manipulatio populi, ars tantum inter tyrannos inventa…
on a post
A revision of this: [ref:6a071346a6001]
Aion is 545 I checked
The journey of the soul in the Mithraic ritual: hypothesis of resurrection or reincarnation…
on Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026
There are more than a few examples of tauroctonies without Sol and Luna. Space is always a consideration when carving stone…
Anyone know what museum this piece lives in?
