The sacred phallus in ancient and contemporary religion, from the Shiva linga and the cult of Priapus to Roman phallic symbolism, the curious but suggestive case of the Mithras cult at Tiddis and the modern idea of phallicism.
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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?
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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.
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.
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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.
To date, there is no evidence that the so-called Mithraeum of Burham was ever used to worship the sun god.
The remains of the Mithraeum of Aosta, also known as the Mitreo di Augusta Praetoria, were discovered in 1953 in insula 59, in a commercial district of the ancient city.
Mithras and other oriental gods were worshipped in the shrine of Zeus near the Villa of the Quintilians in Rome.
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.
Black jasper tauroctony from the Seyrig collection
Fragments of Mithraic reliefs from Poetovio II
Tauroctony relief from Belkıs
Petrogeny from Sibiu
Lion statue from Dunaújváros
Fragmentary tauroctony from Kostolac
Silver belt fitting with Tauroctony
Marble inscription for a cult image of Mithras from Rome
Altar from Paks
Sententia
I don’t understand why he needs a shower cap to go surfing.
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CIMRM 2363
On the basilica of Autun (1148) the journey is reversed: souls ascend to heaven by the Moon and…
He does indeed have a life jacket; it was mandatory for the Romans.
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Thank you for sharing, much appreciated
Hi Yannick, thanks for checking. Just to clarify, 545 is the TNMM number, not the CIMRM number.
salve. The site entry for Gaius Cassius Flavianus says there is attestation that he was part of the mithraeum at Ad Enum…
Monism, chiasm, and dialectics: three principles of thought.
Was working in the 2200s today and found an image of this tauroctony on Flickr…