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.
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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.
The Mithraeum of Kunzing was an underground building, oriented east-west. The entrance was probably on the east.
The temple contained hundreds of ceramic vessels and animal bones, which may indicated that a grand Mithraic feast was celebrated before its closing.
Excavations in 1979 on the remains of the church of Notre-Dame d'Avigonet in Mandelieu, Alpes-Maritimes, brought to light a small mithraeum.
Mithraic sanctuary found at Biljanovac north-east of Kumanovo, Moesia Superior, with a pronaos and inner sanctuary, yielding marble reliefs, an altar, and associated cult objects.
Petrogenesis statue from Schachadorf
Limestone tauroctony relief from Aquincum
Tauroctony relief from Ozd
Two-register tauroctony from Ratiaria
Funerary inscription of Publius Anthius Logus from Montpellier
Lamp with human dismemberment scene from Arles
Small fragment of a tauroctony from Cincșor
Alabaster tauroctony fragment from Cologne
Marble inscription for a cult image of Mithras from Rome
Sententia
We note the alignment: the dog, Mithras’ thigh, cape, raven and Sol; on the other side: bull…
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I’m trying to understand the few remaining vestiges of Mithras. Barberini’s fresco proves that…
I don’t understand why he needs a shower cap to go surfing.
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Here you go https://www.mithraeum.eu/monument/770
Of course, Mithraism is a doctrine based on Chiasma, like Christianity and Platonism.
Thank you for sharing, much appreciated
Ave, dear Andreu, Christianity is contemporary with Mithras and indeed borrows the Platonic chiasma…
