By reading Orphic theology together with Eleusinian ritual practice, the mysteries emerge as a structured mystagogy of transformation: a disciplined passage from forgetfulness (Lethe) to knowledge (aletheia), from mortality to participation in the divine.
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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.
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.
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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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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 Mitreo dei Marmi Colorati takes its name after the discovery of a black-and-white mosaic of Pan fighting with Eros.
The name of this domus comes from the fact that some authors once associated one of its mosaics with the cult of Mithras, a connection that has since been dismissed.
One of the largest known Mithraea in Pannonia, the sanctuary of Sárkeszi stood near the Roman road linking Herculia and Aquincum.
Altar bearing a relief of Cautopates from Silistra
Altar to Cautes by Septimius Valentinus
Rock-cut tauroctony relief from Rožanec
Red sandstone tauroctony from Heddernheim
Petrogenesis statue from Schachadorf
Bronze torchbearer from the Cabinet des Médailles
Bronze torchbearers from the Cabinet des Médailles
Carnelian tauroctony gem from Carnuntum
Silver belt fitting with Tauroctony
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There has to be a mistake somewhere because it hase same CIMRM number as "Aion of Villa Albani"
I was just SO excited over this one. XOXO
There are more than a few examples of tauroctonies without Sol and Luna. Space is always a consideration when carving stone…
Here, does the bas-relief come from Ptuj, or from Frankfurt-Heddernheim?
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Dear Senior Amicus, While you are, strictly speaking, absolutely correct, it is worth recalling…
on Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026
You can see, by the scoring in the "stone", that the corner was simply added to make it more…
The journey of the soul in the Mithraic ritual: hypothesis of resurrection or reincarnation…
on Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026
Vae tibi, qui sapientiam Magistri ignoras! Vere, ingenium Platonis in transpositione Babyloniorum…
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