It is well known that Mithras was born from a rock. However, less has been written about the father of the solar god, and especially about how he conceived him.
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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.
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.
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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 temple of Mithras of Carrawburgh, Brocolita, disclosed three main stages of development, the second exhibiting two reconstructions.
The Mithraeum Felicissimus has a floor mosaic depicting the seven mithraic grades.
The Mithraeum was inserted into the basement of the basilica-theater by the 3rd century.
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.
Basin of Mitreo della Planta Pedis
Lápida mitráica de San Juan de la Isla
Tauroctony from Mithras and Tellus
Tauroctony from Toronto
Tauroctony from Aelius Hylas from Doştat
Tauroctony on display in Boston
Slab from the Palace of Darius at Persepolis
Altar of Faustinus from Gimmeldingen
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No, I think it's not fun, but really superstition. The Romans all wore amulets, often with a phallus and a hand…
Great shot! Thanks for sharing, Pattie. We’d need a reference though, not go our entire database ;…
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I see the Platonic Chiasmus on this fresco from Pompei. I think Mithras and Sol Apollo have nothing to see with earth…
Thank you for the beautiful image and the information. I haven’t had the chance to visit it yet…
hello @dominique.persoons This sphere with a single circle is quite unusual in Mithraic iconography…
The most detailed publication on this monument seems to be Diamandis Triandaphyllos…
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Salve Pattie. I suspect they have been merged because there is not much information on them other…
I am interested in this as my 87 year old friend grew up in Burham and remembers a track she used…
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