The exhibition The Mystery of Mithras opens at the Mariemont Museum in Belgium, home of Franz Cumont, the father of studies on the solar god.
Notitiae
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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Introductio
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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 of Inveresk, south of Musselburgh, East Lothian, is the first found in Scotland, and the earliest securely dated example from Britain.
The Mithra Temple of Maragheh, also referred to as the Mithra Temple of Verjuy or simply Mehr Temple, is the oldest surviving Mithraic temple in Iran known to date.
The Mithraeum I in Stockstadt contained images of Mithras but also of Mercury, Hercules, Diana and Epona, among others.
The remains of the Mithraeum of Aosta, also known as the Mitreo di Augusta Praetoria, were discovered in 1953 in insula 59, in a commercial district of the ancient city.
Petrogeny from Sibiu
Tauroctony fragment from Cincșor
Altar to Cautes by Venulus from Ptuj
Altar to the god of the East from Stockstadt
Getic helmet from Coțofenești
Marble inscription for a cult image of Mithras from Rome
Mihr-Mithra figurine from Hoghmik
Bronze torchbearers from the Cabinet des Médailles
Cautopates statue from Intercisa
Sententia
Anyone know what museum this piece lives in?
Thank you for sharing, much appreciated
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Of course, the Moon’s axis passes through Cancer (summer solstice, the days shorten)…
Indeed: “In front of the altars lay a ritual hearth, fed with special fuel made from Mediterranean pinecones…
CIMRM 2170 [ref:69cac135b3073]
Dear Ystrith, Thank you for your generosity! I redeemed the first code. I love the music so far!…
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Hi Yannick, thanks for checking. Just to clarify, 545 is the TNMM number, not the CIMRM number.
Awesome. Thanks!!
