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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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.
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 Mithraeum of Saara, Syria, has been identified through the deciphering of the remains of the iconographic programme on its arch.
The Mithraeum in Halberg hill, near Saarbrücken, is one of the oldest historical places in the area.
The Roman villa of Can Molodell had a sanctuary that has been related to the cult of Mithras.
The Mithraeum of London, also known as the Walbrook Mithraeum, was contextualised and relocated to its original site in 2016.
Floor mosaic of Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale
Torso dedicated to Mithras
Fresco de Luna en el Mitreo de Santa Maria Capua Vetere
Goblet of Angers
Altar by Flavius Lucilianus from Aveia
Altar of Dioscorus from Alba Iulia
Mithras Petrogenitus of Alba Iulia
Relief de Bourg-Saint-Andéol
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The modern Masonic lodge is organised around the starry vault, but the officers are still arranged…
This is not CIMRM 893. The Bordeaux mithraeum is post-CIMRM. Here’s CIMRM 893: https://www.tertullian…
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This is not a mithraic feast. It is part of a christian sarcophagus, on the left is a representation of Noah…
the Romans were very superstitious. they feared the 'evil eye', the jealousy of other people…
Original is now in the Ötzi Museum in Bozen, but still not part of an exhibition. Lit…
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