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 Niasar Cave, غار نیاسر, was a temple probably devoted to Iranian Mithras that dates back to the early Partian era.
The Mithra Temple of Maragheh, also referred to as the Mithra Temple of Verjuy or simply Mehr Temple, is the oldest surviving Mithraic temple in Iran known to date.
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.
Dedication to Mithras from Pax Iulia
Cautopates statue from Intercisa
Two-register tauroctony from Philippopolis
Altar with donor lists from Solin
Tauroctony on yellow carnelian from Udine
Fragmentary tauroctony from Kostolac
Triangular sandstone relief with crescent from Nida
Votive altar to Deo Invicto from Wiesbaden
Fragmentary tauroctony from Solin
Sententia
Thank you for sharing, much appreciated
Thank you, Alejandro. I’ve just added a link to the article for anyone who’s interested.
Salve Pattie, In case you missed it, there is also a page on the mithraeum itself: https://www.mithraeum.eu/monument/39…
Brilliant find. Thanks as usual!
Sweet!!
Vae tibi, qui sapientiam Magistri ignoras! Vere, ingenium Platonis in transpositione Babyloniorum…
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Ave, dear Andreu, Christianity is contemporary with Mithras and indeed borrows the Platonic chiasma…
Of course, the Moon’s axis passes through Cancer (summer solstice, the days shorten)…
There was an actual (charred) pinecone found in the floor at Carrawburgh. Understandably hard to tag…
