Shared meals, offerings and ceremonies of initiation brought the mysteries into the lives of his worshippers. Within the mithraeum, members took their places in a community whose activities recalled the deeds of the god and reflected the order of the heavens.
Notitiae
On universal traditions, local communities, initiation and ritual in the Roman cult of Mithras with Csaba Szabó.
An esoteric journey through Mithraic sanctuaries, blood symbolism, initiation, solar mysteries and the survival of the pagan spirit in the West.
A flaw in the dominant narrative or just the usual genealogy?
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.
Set in a Roman necropolis, the so-called Mithraeum of the Elephant takes its name from an elephant statue found in one of the tombs.
The Nushijan Mithraeum testifies to the worship of Mithra in the region since before the Zoroastrian reform.
Mithras became the main deity worshipped in the sanctuary of Meter in Kapikaya, Turkey, in Roman times, at least until the fourth century.
The Mithraeum at Espronceda Street, in Merida, was discovered in 2000. It is a semi-subterranean temple.
Altar of Manius Cretinus from Gherla
Black jasper tauroctony from the Seyrig collection
Fragmentary tauroctony from Kostolac
Altar to Deo Invicto Regi from Bandorf
Altar to Petra Genetrix from Budapest
Two-register tauroctony from Ratiaria
Statue of a torchbearer from Apulum
Fragments of Mithraic reliefs from Poetovio II
Altar to Cautes by Venulus from Ptuj
Sententia
Of course, Mithraism is a doctrine based on Chiasma, like Christianity and Platonism.
CIMRM 2170 [ref:69cac135b3073]
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Dear Dominique, interesting observation. However, the placement of Selene (Luna) in this Mithraeum…
on Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026
Hi Yannick, thanks for checking. Just to clarify, 545 is the TNMM number, not the CIMRM number.
He does indeed have a life jacket; it was mandatory for the Romans.
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There was an actual (charred) pinecone found in the floor at Carrawburgh. Understandably hard to tag…
There are more than a few examples of tauroctonies without Sol and Luna. Space is always a consideration when carving stone…
You can see, by the scoring in the "stone", that the corner was simply added to make it more…
