Tracing the links between the cult of Mithras and the Proud Boys’ quest for identity, power, and belonging. How ancient rituals and brotherhood ideals resurface in radical modern movements.
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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.
In his first book, Fahim Ennouhi sheds light on the cult of Mithras in Roman Africa. A marginal and elitist phenomenon, confined to restricted circles and largely absent from local religious dynamics, yet revealing.
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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 the Seven Spheres (Sette Sfere) is of great importance for the understanding of the cult, because of its black-and-white mosaics depicting the planets, the zodiac and related elements.
In a house from the time of Constantine, a Lararium was found with a statue of Isis-Fortuna. The Mithraeum was a door next to it, on a lower room.
An inscription mentioning a speleum decorated by Publilius Ceionius suggests the location of a mithraeum in Cirta, the capital of Numidia.
The Mithraeum of Sutri was built inside a rocky hill that also hosted the Roman theatre of the city.
Altars of Sol and Luna from Mundelsheim
Inscription on the base of a statue from Stabiae
Second Cautes of Sidon holding an axe
Mithras rock-born of Septeuil
CIMRM 635
Fresco of a knight and a black figure from the Hawarte Mithraeum.
Mithras Tauroctony and other figures from Palæographia Britannica
CIMRM 927
Mitra de Cabra
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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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what exactly does it mean to be an "owner of a facebook group".. I set up a facebook group on…
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Photo by the awesome Carole Raddato of Hollowing Hadrian.
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Welcome Veronica 💫
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hello @dominique.persoons This sphere with a single circle is quite unusual in Mithraic iconography…
Indeed Yannick. The right size is 3.6 cm diameter. Thank you.
Congratulations to the city hall of Lugo and all the team who participated in this unexpected…
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