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.
Notitiae
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?
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.
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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 Nushijan Mithraeum testifies to the worship of Mithra in the region since before the Zoroastrian reform.
The Mithraeum I in Stockstadt contained images of Mithras but also of Mercury, Hercules, Diana and Epona, among others.
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.
The Mithraeum of Inveresk, south of Musselburgh, East Lothian, is the first found in Scotland, and the earliest securely dated example from Britain.
Limestone tauroctony relief from Aquincum
Altar to Cautes by Septimius Valentinus
Tauroctony relief from Ozd
Marble statues of Cautes and Cautopates from Rusicade
Dedication to Mithras from Pax Iulia
Sandstone base with Medusa and torchbearer from Carnuntum
Altar to Deo Invicto Regi from Bandorf
Altar for Fons Dei
Stela of Mithras Invictus from Mandeure
Sententia
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
It is ironic that the logo of "the new mithraeum" represents the Platonic cosmic chiasma
Ave, dear Andreu, Christianity is contemporary with Mithras and indeed borrows the Platonic chiasma…
On the basilica of Autun (1148) the journey is reversed: souls ascend to heaven by the Moon and…
Salve Isabelle, and thank you for pointing this out. You were right: the reference to Ad Enum was…
Of course, the Moon’s axis passes through Cancer (summer solstice, the days shorten)…
Thanks. My bad!
A revision of this: [ref:6a071346a6001]
Vae tibi, qui sapientiam Magistri ignoras! Vere, ingenium Platonis in transpositione Babyloniorum…
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