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?
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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.
On what Hekate’s name may or may not tell us, and why the uncertainty matters.
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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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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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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First Mithraic sanctuary discovered at Heddernheim (ancient Nida) in 1826, with finds preserved in the Städtisches Museum at Wiesbaden.
The Housesteads Mithraeum is an underground temple, now burried, discovered in 1822 in a slope of the Chapel Hill, outside of the Roman Fort at the Hadrian's Wall.
This temple of Mithras in Aquincum was located within the private house of the decurio Marcus Antonius Victorinus.
The Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres (Sette Sfere) is of great importance for the understanding of the cult, because of its black-and-white mosaics depicting the planets, the zodiac and related elements.
The Acosolium of the Mysteries in the Hypogeum of Vibia
Iron sword and crown of Güglingen
Inscription of Aurelius Mithres
Altar with inscription of Bingen
Torchbearer head from Heddernheim
Tauroctony from Macerata
Tauroctony from Mile, Jajce
Tauroctony from Reșca
Tauroctony from Pisa
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On the basilica of Autun (1148) the journey is reversed: souls ascend to heaven by the Moon and…
hello @dominique.persoons This sphere with a single circle is quite unusual in Mithraic iconography…
Dear Veronica, as a woman you cannot attend the ceremonies in the mithraeum. But you can help prepare the feast…
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It is magnificent. so better if you had a picture of the inside.
Interesting that the couch's covering isn't recognizable as the slain bull, though I'm not sure I…
hello, what does symbolize this huge spher with a crown over? I believe resurrection of the soul …
Greeaaaaaaat. Now I’m flying to Chicago. ;-) Thanks for the heads up.
I am researching the Latin inscription dedicated by Callimorphus to Mithras (EDCS-27800570 / CIL III 12135)…
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