An esoteric journey through Mithraic sanctuaries, blood symbolism, initiation, solar mysteries and the survival of the pagan spirit in the West.
Notitiae
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?
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.
The Mithraeum I of Ptuj contains the foundation, altars, reliefs and cult imagery found in it.
The Nushijan Mithraeum testifies to the worship of Mithra in the region since before the Zoroastrian reform.
The Mithraeum of Tazoult / Lambèse is one of the best preserved Mithras’s temples in Africa.
Workman digging in a field near Dormagen found a vault. Against one of the walls were found two monuments related to Mithras.
Cup of Eutyches from Martigny
Tauroctony on yellow carnelian from Udine
Fragments of Mithraic reliefs from Poetovio II
Two-register tauroctony from Philippopolis
Red sandstone tauroctony from Heddernheim
Silver belt fitting with Tauroctony
Altar to Cautes by Venulus from Ptuj
Aion (?) from Janiculum Hill
Terracotta krater from the Friedberg Mithraeum
Sententia
You are most welcome, I’m glad that it was of use. E Do ut Des, I give pro publico bono so that you may give to others…
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
Oh well, all I had to do was ask, and now we can tag shires too! There we go: https://www.mithraeum…
On the basilica of Autun (1148) the journey is reversed: souls ascend to heaven by the Moon and…
;) and what about the armour!
on a post
Salve Pattie, In case you missed it, there is also a page on the mithraeum itself: https://www.mithraeum.eu/monument/39…
Brilliant find. Thanks as usual!
Awesome. Thanks!!
Aion is 545 I checked
