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A name older than Greece

On what Hekate’s name may or may not tell us, and why the uncertainty matters.

Lenni George

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    A Man of the Gods and Mysteries

    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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    The Golden Chain of Initiation

    By reading Orphic theology together with Eleusinian ritual practice, the mysteries emerge as a structured mystagogy of transformation:…

     
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    Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere

    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.

     
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    Mithras in Africa

    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.

     
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  • Life around the world’s largest Mithras temple revealed at Doliche

    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

    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

  • The Mirror of Mithras

    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.

    P Sufenas Virius Lupus

  • A new mithraeum discovered during excavation in Trier

    A place of worship for the Roman god of light Mithras was discovered during archaeological excavations in Trier. This includes a larger relief.

  • Hallan en el yacimiento romano de Cabra (Córdoba) un lugar de culto al dios Mithra

    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

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Some places to visit

  • Mithraeum of Sidon

    The Mithraeum of Sidon may have escaped destruction because the Mithras worshippers walled up the entrance to the underground sanctuary.

     
  • Mithraeum of Jajce

    The remains of the Jajački Mithraeum were discovered accidentally during excavation for the construction of a private house in 1931.

     
  • Mithraeum of Aigio

    The underground cave which served as temple was cut into the conglomerate rock of the area, and a flight of eight steps of stone slabs led to it.

     
  • Mithraeum of Močići

    The Mithraeum of Mocici was situated in a grotto at one hour's walk fomr the ancient Epidaurum.

     

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Guest insights

Pattie Lawler

We totally need a picture of this. Who's in the area? ;-)

on Mithréum de Vienne

 

Sercan Sarıkaya

Visited 2 times. Different stone type also.

on Mithraeum of Zerzevan

 

The New Mithraeum

Excellent!

on Mithraeum of Stixneusiedl

 

The New Mithraeum

Salve Aleš, I’ve checked the translation you mention and agree that Eucheta is more likely the…

on Terentius Priscus

 

Jaime Alvar Ezquerra

This is not a mithraic feast. It is part of a christian sarcophagus, on the left is a representation of Noah…

on Feast from Mérida

 

Dave Fingrut

My point is not to disrespect your faith but to suggest that both the archangel and the deity have…

on Mithraism As Proud Boy Prototype: Underground Clubs of the Syndexioi and Pueri Superbi

 

The New Mithraeum

Gratias Pattie!

on Petrogeny with hand on head from Nida

 

Dominique PERSOONS

Monreal 12th centyry AD. 1,000 years after mithraism...

on From Mithraism to Freemasonry. A history of ideas

 

Frederick Stoddon

I know the Mithras site (since my childhood) at Carrawburgh and have worked at the APX Xanten…

on Mithras-Sol Altar from the Carrawburgh

 
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