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?
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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.
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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.
The Barberini Mithraeum was discovered in 1936 in the garden of the Palazzo Barberini, owned by Conte A. Savorgnan di Brazza.
The Mithraeum of the Crypta Balbi was locted in the middle of a densely populated insula near the theatre of Cornelius Balbus.
One of Roman Italy’s most important Mithraic sanctuaries, the Mithraeum at S. Maria Capua Vetere preserves a remarkable painted cycle of initiation scenes, offering rare visual evidence for the ritual life of Roman Mithaism.
Phallus relief from the Mithraeum of Tiddis
Cautes and Cautopates of Marquise
Relief of Aion on globe
Intaglio with Tauroctony from The Met
Antiochus I shakes hands with Mithras
Inscription to Sol Apollo Anicetus from Rudchester
Cautes of Sisak
Altar to the god of the West from Stockstadt
Tauroctony from Syracuse
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Of course, the Moon’s axis passes through Cancer (summer solstice, the days shorten)…
The journey of the soul in the Mithraic ritual: hypothesis of resurrection or reincarnation…
on Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026
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Please be critical! As you can see, this article was written a long time ago and only quotes an article from https://www…
I knew this amazing capital in Monreale. In Sicily, isn’t it? It’s quite remarkable…
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A beautiful piece of art, which indeed seems to be quite inspired by the mithraic Aion…
Pattie, you and I need to talk about those bits one of these days. I'd be glad to know more about them.
There are more than a few examples of tauroctonies without Sol and Luna. Space is always a consideration when carving stone…
