Contemporary Italian artist exploring myth, sacred imagery and the legacy of the ancient world.
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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?
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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.
A Mithraeum has been identified in Eleusis where the last Hierophant form thespia had the rank of Father in the Mithraic Mysteries.
Second Mithraic sanctuary discovered in 1826 some 150 metres west of Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, with finds in the Wiesbaden museum.
The Mithraeum I of Ptuj contains the foundation, altars, reliefs and cult imagery found in it.
The discovery of the Mithraeum of Tarquinia is due to the Department for Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Carabinieri, who noticed some clandestine excavations near the Ara della Regina.
Statue of Cautopates from Budapest
Alabaster tauroctony fragment from Cologne
Cultores Inscription from Tiddis
Sandstone tauroctony relief from Carnuntum
Parthian dipinto from Dura-Europos
Altar bearing a relief of Cautopates from Silistra
Votive altar to Mithras from Poetovio
Four-sided limestone altar from Trier
Mihr-Mithra figurine from Hoghmik
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Thank you, Alejandro. I’ve just added a link to the article for anyone who’s interested.
Brilliant find. Thanks as usual!
Of course, the Moon’s axis passes through Cancer (summer solstice, the days shorten)…
On the basilica of Autun (1148) the journey is reversed: souls ascend to heaven by the Moon and…
Was working in the 2200s today and found an image of this tauroctony on Flickr…
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On this, the sun and the moon are a common motif in Roman iconography, appearing of course on the…
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
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