The sacred phallus in ancient and contemporary religion, from the Shiva linga and the cult of Priapus to Roman phallic symbolism, the curious but suggestive case of the Mithras cult at Tiddis and the modern idea of phallicism.
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A flaw in the dominant narrative or just the usual genealogy?
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?
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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.
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.
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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.
Mithras and other oriental gods were worshipped in the shrine of Zeus near the Villa of the Quintilians in Rome.
A sixth temple dedicated to Mithras has been identified for the first time in the military sector of the ancient Roman city of Aquincum.
The Mithraeum in the Chapel of the Three Naves was not linked to the cult of Mithras until recently because of a mosaic showing a pig, in the belief that it was an animal unfit for consumption in a temple of Eastern origin.
Four-sided limestone altar from Trier
Fragments of Mithraic reliefs from Poetovio II
Altar to Cautopates by Cresces from Ptuj
Altar from Dvin
Torchbearer head from Heddernheim
Sandstone tauroctony relief from Carnuntum
Statue of Cautopates from Budapest
Possible tauroctony fragments from Artashat
Cup of Eutyches from Martigny
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Anyone know what museum this piece lives in?
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Sol and Luna are reversed, and Cautes is a lazy boy, with a column to hold up his arm…
On the basilica of Autun (1148) the journey is reversed: souls ascend to heaven by the Moon and…
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The Two Gates: Thank you very much for sharing this Dominique. Traditionally…
on Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026
Salve Pattie, In case you missed it, there is also a page on the mithraeum itself: https://www.mithraeum.eu/monument/39…
On this, the sun and the moon are a common motif in Roman iconography, appearing of course on the…
Was working in the 2200s today and found an image of this tauroctony on Flickr…
