By reading Orphic theology together with Eleusinian ritual practice, the mysteries emerge as a structured mystagogy of transformation: a disciplined passage from forgetfulness (Lethe) to knowledge (aletheia), from mortality to participation in the divine.
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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.
Restoring the Mysteries: A Conversation with Peter Mark Adams on his new book ‘Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras’.
Exploring religion, rituals, archaeological insights, and historical impact of the Cult of Mithras in the Danubian provinces.
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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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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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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 temple of Mithras of Carrawburgh, Brocolita, disclosed three main stages of development, the second exhibiting two reconstructions.
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 under the Basilica of San Clemente made part of a notable Roman house.
In the second half of the 4th century, a Mithraic temple was established within an earlier spring sanctuary at Septeuil, where the cult of the nymphs and Mithraic practices appear to have coexisted.
Column with inscription from Dura Europos
Altar to Luna from Gimmeldingen
Aion from Muti's gardens
Aion of Florence
Inscription of Victorinus from Tibur
Arula by Lucius Petreius of Cabrera de Mar
Isis de Mérida
Altar of Faustinus from Gimmeldingen
Taurocotony from Calvi Risorta
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Thank you for sharing @dominique.persoons It would be great if we can get it in a better definition.
Thank you, Jaime, for your clarification of this monument, previously identified as Mithraic…
Well, thanks for getting back to me. If there’s anything you’d like to know, feel free to poke me. Nice to meet you…
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the Romans were very superstitious. they feared the 'evil eye', the jealousy of other people…
Il piacere è tutto mio.
on Milo
It is magnificent. so better if you had a picture of the inside.
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
Dear Veronica, as a woman you cannot attend the ceremonies in the mithraeum. But you can help prepare the feast…
on Veronica
Gallia, Vol. 6, No. 2 (1948), pp. 289-347 (59 pages)
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