Restoring the Mysteries: A Conversation with Peter Mark Adams on his new book ‘Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras’.
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On universal traditions, local communities, initiation and ritual in the Roman cult of Mithras with Csaba Szabó.
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?
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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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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.
Late Roman Mithraeum beneath a fourth-century church, preserving one of the most extensive cycles of Mithraic wall paintings ever discovered.
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.
To date, there is no evidence that the so-called Mithraeum of Burham was ever used to worship the sun god.
The temple contained hundreds of ceramic vessels and animal bones, which may indicated that a grand Mithraic feast was celebrated before its closing.
Altar to Cautes by Venulus from Ptuj
Sandstone tauroctony relief from Petronell-Carnuntum
Possible tauroctony fragments from Artashat
Tauroctony relief from Dülük
Triangular sandstone relief with crescent from Nida
Marble relief fragment of Mithras from Apulum
Tauroctony relief from Paks
Votive altar to Deo Invicto from Wiesbaden
Tauroctony relief from Belkıs
Sententia
Sol and Luna are reversed, and Cautes is a lazy boy, with a column to hold up his arm…
Thanks for sharing, Hetanos. I haven’t had a chance to visit Garni yet, but it has been highly recommended to me…
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Dear Professor Campos, Remarkable work, indeed! I have two modest reflexions to suggest:…
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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Thank you for sharing, much appreciated
Salve Isabelle, and thank you for pointing this out. You were right: the reference to Ad Enum was…
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directed light and ideas of the cosmos could momentarily converge. Rather than depicting an actual ceremony…
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