By reading Orphic theology together with Eleusinian ritual practice, the mysteries emerge as a structured mystagogy of transformation: a disciplined passage from forgetfulness (Lethe) to knowledge (aletheia), from mortality to participation in the divine.
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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.
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.
Restoring the Mysteries: A Conversation with Peter Mark Adams on his new book ‘Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras’.
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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 Mitreo della crypta neapolitana was used a des legends about its use, from a cult place devoted to Priapus to celebrate Aphrodite.
The Mithraeum of Visentium, near Capodimonte in Viterbo, was carved grotto-style into a tuff cliff overlooking the waters of Lake Bolsena, just a few dozen metres away.
The Mithraeum of Schwarzerden, also know as Mithräum von Reichweiler, was carved on the rock.
The two altars found in the Mithraeum of Mundelsheim one of Sol and the other of Luna, are exposed in situ.
Altar of Bergamo
Tauroctony from Plovdiv
Frescoes of 'Magis' from Dura Europos
Aion of Orazio Muti
Feast scene with Mithras and Sol from Ladenburg
Slab from the Palace of Darius at Persepolis
Grand camée de France
Tauroctony on display in Virginia
Aion of York
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here is the altar of Sarrebourg , picture tooken in 1890.
We note the alignment: the dog, Mithras’ thigh, cape, raven and Sol; on the other side: bull…
I did not express myself well. I think that this golbe or ball is the soul but also of Plato's Anima Mundi…
I sincerely appreciate your response and the list of books you provided. Were your mentions of…
on Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026
Thank you, Jaime, for your clarification of this monument, previously identified as Mithraic…
It’s much bluer in person.
on Intaglio with Mithras and Abraxas at the Walters Art Museum
I’m trying to understand the few remaining vestiges of Mithras. Barberini’s fresco proves that…
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