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.
The site of Ay-Todor in Crimea revealed a Roman camp, a temple with votive offerings, and a Mithraeum.
The Mithraeum I of Ptuj contains the foundation, altars, reliefs and cult imagery found in it.
Roman building on the Aventine between the eastern side of S. Saba and Via Salvator, probably used as a Mithraeum at the end of the 4th century, with a long corridor bearing three semicircular niches and a large external basin.
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
Mithraic find from London
Fragmentary tauroctony from Solin
Fragment of a Mithraic tauroctony from Dacia
Statue of a torchbearer from Apulum
Altar of Victorinus to Fons Perennis
Two-register tauroctony from Ratiaria
Tauroctony on yellow carnelian from Udine
Tauroctony from Reșca
Sententia
Vae tibi, qui sapientiam Magistri ignoras! Vere, ingenium Platonis in transpositione Babyloniorum…
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;) and what about the armour!
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I believe that the top left corner does not come from this relief: there is no Sun facing the Moon…
There are more than a few examples of tauroctonies without Sol and Luna. Space is always a consideration when carving stone…
CIMRM 2363
Thank you for your testimony, great! And then, a Mithras stele without the Sun is like Jesus without the cross…
We note the alignment: the dog, Mithras’ thigh, cape, raven and Sol; on the other side: bull…
Monism, chiasm, and dialectics: three principles of thought.
On the basilica of Autun (1148) the journey is reversed: souls ascend to heaven by the Moon and…
