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
Originally published in issue 4 of the journal Antaios, this essay advocates a pagan renewal of Europe informed by Evola, Jünger and the Traditionalist school.
Christopher Gérard
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
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.
First Mithraic sanctuary discovered at Heddernheim (ancient Nida) in 1826, with finds preserved in the Städtisches Museum at Wiesbaden.
The Mithraeum I in Stockstadt contained images of Mithras but also of Mercury, Hercules, Diana and Epona, among others.
The Mithraeum I of Ptuj contains the foundation, altars, reliefs and cult imagery found in it.
Rock-cut tauroctony relief from Rožanec
Mithraic find from London
Cultores Inscription from Tiddis
Marble inscription for a cult image of Mithras from Rome
Statue of a torchbearer from Apulum
Sandstone base with Medusa and torchbearer from Carnuntum
Rock-crystal tauroctony gem from Paris
Small fragment of a tauroctony from Cincșor
Sandstone tauroctony relief from Petronell-Carnuntum
Sententia
Dear Amicus: as early as the 3rd century AD, Plotinus wrote that the soul was divided into a lower and a higher part: ".…
on Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026
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I believe that the top left corner does not come from this relief: there is no Sun facing the Moon…
Dear Dominique, interesting observation. However, the placement of Selene (Luna) in this Mithraeum…
on Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026
Thank you for sharing, much appreciated
337 At the Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, the image reveals Oceanus and Terra in opposition…
Of course, Mithraism is a doctrine based on Chiasma, like Christianity and Platonism.
