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.
Notitiae
Arguments for interpreting the Tomb of the Elephant as a Mithraeum based on architectural archaeology, digital surveying and archaeoastronomy.
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?
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.
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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
There are references to two places of worship from Dieburg, whereby the Mithraeum, discovered in 1926.
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 Carminiello ai Mannesi was installed in two rooms of a 1st century BC domus.
Black jasper tauroctony from the Seyrig collection
Tauroctony relief from Biljanovac
Tauroctony framed by acanthus leaves
Radiate bronze head of Mithras
Terracotta krater from the Friedberg Mithraeum
Cup of Eutyches from Martigny
Tauroctony on yellow carnelian from Udine
Arm with stars and a swastika
Sandstone base with Medusa and torchbearer from Carnuntum
Sententia
Of course, the Moon’s axis passes through Cancer (summer solstice, the days shorten)…
On the basilica of Autun (1148) the journey is reversed: souls ascend to heaven by the Moon and…
I was just SO excited over this one. XOXO
I don’t understand why he needs a shower cap to go surfing.
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Was working in the 2200s today and found an image of this tauroctony on Flickr…
Aion is 545 I checked
Dear Amicus: as early as the 3rd century AD, Plotinus wrote that the soul was divided into a lower and a higher part: ".…
on Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026
Honestly, thank you. Recognition helps.
on Sandstone base with Medusa and torchbearer from Carnuntum
Here, does the bas-relief come from Ptuj, or from Frankfurt-Heddernheim?
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