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Peter Mark Adams, Mithras and the Renaissance

For the launch of our YouTube channel, we chat with the author, poet, essayist and friend Peter Mark Adams about the Sola-Busca tarot, a Renaissance masterpiece, uncovering ties to the Mithras cult.

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Introductio

 

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Some places to visit

  • Mithraeum at Biljanovac

    Mithraic sanctuary found at Biljanovac north-east of Kumanovo, Moesia Superior, with a pronaos and inner sanctuary, yielding marble reliefs, an altar, and associated cult objects.

     
  • Mitreo della Crypta Balbi

    The Mithraeum of the Crypta Balbi was locted in the middle of a densely populated insula near the theatre of Cornelius Balbus.

     
  • Mithräum von Künzing

    The Mithraeum of Kunzing was an underground building, oriented east-west. The entrance was probably on the east.

     
  • Mithraeum of Sárkeszi

    One of the largest known Mithraea in Pannonia, the sanctuary of Sárkeszi stood near the Roman road linking Herculia and Aquincum.

     

Sententia

Guest insights

Yannick Schmidt

There has to be a mistake somewhere because it hase same CIMRM number as "Aion of Villa Albani"

on Cautopates in the Walters Art Museum

 

Israel Campos

A revision of this: [ref:6a071346a6001]

on Tauroctony from Santiponce

 

Pattie L

You can see, by the scoring in the "stone", that the corner was simply added to make it more…

on Tauroctony relief from Naples

 

Mateusz Zalewski

The Two Gates: Thank you very much for sharing this Dominique. Traditionally…

on Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026

 

Pattie L

I was just SO excited over this one. XOXO

on Altar from Paks

 

Dominique PERSOONS

Ave, dear Andreu, Christianity is contemporary with Mithras and indeed borrows the Platonic chiasma…

on Tauroctony relief from Naples

 

The New Mithraeum

Indeed: “In front of the altars lay a ritual hearth, fed with special fuel made from Mediterranean pinecones…

on Tauroctony from Târgușor

 
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