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.
Arguments for interpreting the Tomb of the Elephant as a Mithraeum based on architectural archaeology, digital surveying and archaeoastronomy.
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 Trier Mithräum was discovered during work on the city’s new fire station. The findings included a Cautes limestone relief.
In the second half of the 4th century, a Mithraic temple was established within an earlier spring sanctuary at Septeuil, where the cult of the nymphs and Mithraic practices appear to have coexisted.
After Christianity was adopted, most pagan monuments were destroyed or abandoned. Garni, however, was preserved at the request of the sister of King Tiridates II and used as a summer residence for Armenian royalty.
The Housesteads Mithraeum is an underground temple, now burried, discovered in 1822 in a slope of the Chapel Hill, outside of the Roman Fort at the Hadrian's Wall.
Rock-crystal tauroctony gem from Paris
Tauroctony relief from Ozd
Seal of King Šauštatar of Mitanni
Altar to Cautes by Septimius Valentinus
Marble statues of Cautes and Cautopates from Rusicade
Altar bearing a relief of Cautopates from Silistra
Mihr-Mithra figurine from Hoghmik
Tauroctony from Reșca
Marble relief fragment of Mithras from Apulum
Sententia
On this, the sun and the moon are a common motif in Roman iconography, appearing of course on the…
Salve Isabelle, and thank you for pointing this out. You were right: the reference to Ad Enum was…
I’m not sure I fully agree. This appears to be based on an overly literal reading that assumes…
Привет! Имам забележка за превода: For good fortune…
On the basilica of Autun (1148) the journey is reversed: souls ascend to heaven by the Moon and…
Dear Dominique, interesting observation. However, the placement of Selene (Luna) in this Mithraeum…
on Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026
I believe that the top left corner does not come from this relief: there is no Sun facing the Moon…
Here you go https://www.mithraeum.eu/monument/770
Can anyone find a picture of this or take one when around? thx
