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Mithras, a glocal god?

On universal traditions, local communities, initiation and ritual in the Roman cult of Mithras with Csaba Szabó.

Andreu Abuín
Andreu Abuín

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Some places to visit

  • Mithraeum of Heviz

    The Mithraeum has found in a Roman building at the end of Attila Road, in Hévíz, Egregy

     
  • Mithräum von Dormagen

    Workman digging in a field near Dormagen found a vault. Against one of the walls were found two monuments related to Mithras.

     
  • Mithraeum of Lambaesis

    The Mithraeum of Tazoult / Lambèse is one of the best preserved Mithras’s temples in Africa.

     
  • Mithraeum I of Ptuj

    The Mithraeum I of Ptuj contains the foundation, altars, reliefs and cult imagery found in it.

     

Sententia

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Salve Pattie, In case you missed it, there is also a page on the mithraeum itself: https://www.mithraeum.eu/monument/39…

on Tauroctonia del Mitreo de Duino

 

Dominique PERSOONS

On the basilica of Autun (1148) the journey is reversed: souls ascend to heaven by the Moon and…

on Tauroctony relief from Naples

 

The New Mithraeum

Oh well, all I had to do was ask, and now we can tag shires too! There we go: https://www.mithraeum…

on Tauroctony from Târgușor

 

Pattie L

You can see, by the scoring in the "stone", that the corner was simply added to make it more…

on Tauroctony relief from Naples

 

Isabelle Waine

salve. The site entry for Gaius Cassius Flavianus says there is attestation that he was part of the mithraeum at Ad Enum…

on Mithraeum of Inveresk

 

Dominique PERSOONS

Ave, dear Andreu, Christianity is contemporary with Mithras and indeed borrows the Platonic chiasma…

on Tauroctony relief from Naples

 

Ystrith

directed light and ideas of the cosmos could momentarily converge. Rather than depicting an actual ceremony…

on a post

 

The New Mithraeum

On this, the sun and the moon are a common motif in Roman iconography, appearing of course on the…

on Tauroctony relief from Naples

 
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