On what Hekate’s name may or may not tell us, and why the uncertainty matters.
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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.
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.
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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 Sidon may have escaped destruction because the Mithras worshippers walled up the entrance to the underground sanctuary.
The remains of the Jajački Mithraeum were discovered accidentally during excavation for the construction of a private house in 1931.
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.
The Mithraeum of Mocici was situated in a grotto at one hour's walk fomr the ancient Epidaurum.
Mithras carrying the bull
Tauroctony from Dormagen
Painted tauroctony from Rome
Inscription by Proficentius, Rome
Mithras hunting from Dura Europos
CIMRM 1701
Two-sided relief of Fiano Romano
Tauroctony from Santiponce
Mithraic meal from Proložac, Croatia
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We totally need a picture of this. Who's in the area? ;-)
Visited 2 times. Different stone type also.
Excellent!
Salve Aleš, I’ve checked the translation you mention and agree that Eucheta is more likely the…
This is not a mithraic feast. It is part of a christian sarcophagus, on the left is a representation of Noah…
My point is not to disrespect your faith but to suggest that both the archangel and the deity have…
on Mithraism As Proud Boy Prototype: Underground Clubs of the Syndexioi and Pueri Superbi
Gratias Pattie!
Monreal 12th centyry AD. 1,000 years after mithraism...
I know the Mithras site (since my childhood) at Carrawburgh and have worked at the APX Xanten…
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