On universal traditions, local communities, initiation and ritual in the Roman cult of Mithras with Csaba Szabó.
Notitiae
An esoteric journey through Mithraic sanctuaries, blood symbolism, initiation, solar mysteries and the survival of the pagan spirit in the West.
A flaw in the dominant narrative or just the usual genealogy?
A theological experiment in Neo-Platonic realism, theology of arithmetic, and teleological metamorphoses of powers in the divine, terrestrial, and chthonic worlds across the cosmic symphony.
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Introductio
Press clips
Archaeologists at Doliche are now excavating houses around the vast Mithras temple to learn how people lived beside the sanctuary.
Newsroom
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.
Mysteriesofmithras/sandbox
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.
Agencia
On the occasion of the exhibition, the Royal Museum of Mariemont invites five experts from Europe to emulate the research on the cult of Mithras.
The Mithraeum has found in a Roman building at the end of Attila Road, in Hévíz, Egregy
The Trier Mithräum was discovered during work on the city’s new fire station. The findings included a Cautes limestone relief.
Late Roman Mithraeum beneath a fourth-century church, preserving one of the most extensive cycles of Mithraic wall paintings ever discovered.
The underground cave which served as temple was cut into the conglomerate rock of the area, and a flight of eight steps of stone slabs led to it.
Amethyst intaglio with Tauroctony
Altar to Cautes by Venulus from Ptuj
Tauroctony from Carnuntum
Tauroctony relief from Alcsútdoboz
Alabaster tauroctony fragment from Cologne
Altar to Deo Invicto Regi from Bandorf
Sandstone tauroctony relief from Carnuntum
Bronze torchbearers from the Cabinet des Médailles
Statue of Cautopates from Budapest
Sententia
On this, the sun and the moon are a common motif in Roman iconography, appearing of course on the…
I believe that the top left corner does not come from this relief: there is no Sun facing the Moon…
salve. The site entry for Gaius Cassius Flavianus says there is attestation that he was part of the mithraeum at Ad Enum…
Awesome. Thanks!!
Salve Pattie, In case you missed it, there is also a page on the mithraeum itself: https://www.mithraeum.eu/monument/39…
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Ave, dear Andreu, Christianity is contemporary with Mithras and indeed borrows the Platonic chiasma…
There was an actual (charred) pinecone found in the floor at Carrawburgh. Understandably hard to tag…
