Lenni George on Hekate’s development across ancient traditions, from mystery cults to magical practice and philosophical thought.
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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.
By reading Orphic theology together with Eleusinian ritual practice, the mysteries emerge as a structured mystagogy of transformation:…
This article revisits the Mithraeum of S. Maria Capua Vetere, one of the most complete and artistically refined Mithraic sanctuaries in the Campanian region, situating it within its archaeological, iconographic, and ritual-historical contexts.
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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.
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Over the last century or so, a great deal has been said about the god Mithras and his mysteries, which became known to the European world mainly through his Roman cultus during the Imperial Period.
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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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The Mithraeum of Martigny is the first temple devoted to Mithras found in Switzerland.
A Mithraeum has been identified in Eleusis where the last Hierophant form thespia had the rank of Father in the Mithraic Mysteries.
On the Aventine, between the Eastern side of S. Saba’s and the Via Salvator, there is a Roman building, which probably was used as a Mithraeum in the end of the 4th century.
Mithras and other oriental gods were worshipped in the shrine of Zeus near the Villa of the Quintilians in Rome.
Altar with Mithras rock-birth of Nida
Male figure with offerings from Dieburg
Tauroctony from Golubić
Aion from Villa Barberini
Mithras Tauroctony and other figures from Palæographia Britannica
Tauroctony from the Collezione Torlonia
Tauroctony from Pleven
Two-sided relief of Fiano Romano
Cult vessel with snake representations of St. Egyden
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Better image from Mitrei Ostia. What we need is a road trip to go see it ourselves. I call shot gun!!
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This him! ^__^ Now we need a better picture of that tauroctony.... ;-)
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Thanks Pattie!
Gallia, Vol. 6, No. 2 (1948), pp. 289-347 (59 pages)
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Monreal 12th centyry AD. 1,000 years after mithraism...
Excellent idea, Matthew. Count on us!
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Interesting that the couch's covering isn't recognizable as the slain bull, though I'm not sure I…
i want more!
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