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Regarding the “Persian” nature of Mithras and Mithraism

A flaw in the dominant narrative or just the usual genealogy?

Hetanos Argonavord
Hetanos Argonavord

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Some places to visit

  • Mithraeum of Housesteads

    The Housesteads Mithraeum is an underground temple, now burried, discovered in 1822 in a slope of the Chapel Hill, outside of the Roman Fort at the Hadrian's Wall.

     
  • Mitreo della Planta Pedis

    The floor of the central aisle of the Mithraeum of the Footprint in Ostia has a mosaic depicting a snake and a footprint.

     
  • Mithraeum of Burham

    To date, there is no evidence that the so-called Mithraeum of Burham was ever used to worship the sun god.

     
  • Mithraeum VI of Aquincum

    A sixth temple dedicated to Mithras has been identified for the first time in the military sector of the ancient Roman city of Aquincum.

     

Sententia

Guest insights

Alejandro Jiménez Hernández

An essential article for understanding the archaeoastronomical orientation of the Hawarte Mithraeum…

on Mithraeum of Hawarte

 

Yannick Schmidt

There has to be a mistake somewhere because it hase same CIMRM number as "Aion of Villa Albani"

on Cautopates in the Walters Art Museum

 

Pattie L

Anyone know what museum this piece lives in?

on Cautopates from Jajce

 

Dominique PERSOONS

Thank you for your testimony, great! And then, a Mithras stele without the Sun is like Jesus without the cross…

on Tauroctony relief from Naples

 

The New Mithraeum

Salve Isabelle, and thank you for pointing this out. You were right: the reference to Ad Enum was…

on Mithraeum of Inveresk

 

Dominique PERSOONS

Monism, chiasm, and dialectics: three principles of thought.

on Tauroctony relief from Naples

 

Andreu Abuín

Thanks for sharing, Hetanos. I haven’t had a chance to visit Garni yet, but it has been highly recommended to me…

on a post

 

Dominique PERSOONS

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

 
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