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.
Notitiae
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.
Libri
Introductio
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.
A mosaic of Silvanus, dated to the time of Commodus, was found in a niche in a nearby room of the Mithraeum in the Imperial Palace at Ostia.
The Trier Mithräum was discovered during work on the city’s new fire station. The findings included a Cautes limestone relief.
The Niasar Cave, غار نیاسر, was a temple probably devoted to Iranian Mithras that dates back to the early Partian era.
First Mithraic sanctuary discovered at Heddernheim (ancient Nida) in 1826, with finds preserved in the Städtisches Museum at Wiesbaden.
Bronze fibula with lion-headed Aion from Carnuntum
Amethyst intaglio with Tauroctony
Four-sided limestone altar from Trier
Votive altar to Deo Invicto from Wiesbaden
Inscription to Sol Apollo Anicetus from Rudchester
Fragment of a Mithraic tauroctony from Dacia
Sandstone tauroctony relief from Petronell-Carnuntum
Votive altar to Mithras from Poetovio
Rock-crystal tauroctony gem from Paris
Sententia
CIMRM 2363
Was working in the 2200s today and found an image of this tauroctony on Flickr…
Indeed: “In front of the altars lay a ritual hearth, fed with special fuel made from Mediterranean pinecones…
Anyone know what museum this piece lives in?
Aion is 545 I checked
Monism, chiasm, and dialectics: three principles of thought.
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On the basilica of Autun (1148) the journey is reversed: souls ascend to heaven by the Moon and…
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