On universal traditions, local communities, initiation and ritual in the Roman cult of Mithras with Csaba Szabó.
Notitiae
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?
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.
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.
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 Trier Mithräum was discovered during work on the city’s new fire station. The findings included a Cautes limestone relief.
Workman digging in a field near Dormagen found a vault. Against one of the walls were found two monuments related to Mithras.
Archaeologists discovered the 20th temple dedicated to Mithras in Ostia during the restoration of the domus del capitello di stucco in 2022.
Tauroctony relief from Dülük
Rock-cut tauroctony relief from Rožanec
Sandstone base with Medusa and torchbearer from Carnuntum
Bronze fibula with lion-headed Aion from Carnuntum
Altar from Dvin
Mithras birth from Petronell
Statue of a torchbearer from Apulum
Marble bull fragments from Garni
Altar with donor lists from Solin
Sententia
Of course, the Moon’s axis passes through Cancer (summer solstice, the days shorten)…
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Thank you for this article. It expands the discussion of the origins of the religion…
Sweet!!
salve. The site entry for Gaius Cassius Flavianus says there is attestation that he was part of the mithraeum at Ad Enum…
Of course, Mithraism is a doctrine based on Chiasma, like Christianity and Platonism.
Thank you for your testimony, great! And then, a Mithras stele without the Sun is like Jesus without the cross…
I believe that the top left corner does not come from this relief: there is no Sun facing the Moon…
Oh well, all I had to do was ask, and now we can tag shires too! There we go: https://www.mithraeum…