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?
Notitiae
Labors of Hercules as planetary zodiacal initiations: model mystagogy. The alchemy of Herculean labors.
Lenni George on Hekate’s development across ancient traditions, from mystery cults to magical practice and philosophical thought.
On what Hekate’s name may or may not tell us, and why the uncertainty matters.
At Rome’s twilight, amid political upheaval and Christian ascendancy, Vettius Agorius Praetextatus embodied pagan intellect, virtue, and authority across senatorial, military, and mystical spheres.
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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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Mount Nemrut or Nemrud is one of the highest peaks in the eastern Taurus Mountains, southeastern Turkey. On its summit large statues stand around what is supposed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC.
Mithras and other oriental gods were worshipped in the shrine of Zeus near the Villa of the Quintilians in Rome.
The Mithraeum of Sabazeus was found in one of the rooms of the Horrea built in the years 120 - 125 AD. The installation of the shrine may have taken place in the first half of the third century.
Altars of Dura Europos
Mithras petrogenitus of the Esquilino
Cautes and Cautopates of Stockstadt
Signaculum of Caius Valerius Avitus
Altar of Vieu
Naked figure from Mérida
Tabula ansata from Brigetio
Altar by Hector Corneliorum of Mérida
Tauroctony from Santo Domingo de Silos
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Thank you for sharing, much appreciated
We don’t have a website but we do have a Facebook page as the Longthorpe Legion, so please have a look and see what we do.
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here is the altar of Sarrebourg , picture tooken in 1890.
I think there is no trace of this mithraeum since long time ago...
If this phallus really belonged to the mithraeum where it is currently placed and not elsewhere…
y un cuarto por encima del 3º
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I’m working on this inscription, and I’m not sure if you’ve understood and translated it correctly…
Great shot! Thanks for sharing, Pattie. We’d need a reference though, not go our entire database ;…
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Gratias Pattie!
