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.
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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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Mithras and other oriental gods were worshipped in the shrine of Zeus near the Villa of the Quintilians in Rome.
The Mithraeum of Spoleto was found in 1878 by the professor Fabio Gori on behalf of Marquis Filippo Marignoli, owner of the land.
The Mithraeum of the terms of Mithras takes its name from being installed in the service area of the Baths of Mithras.
The Mitreo dei Marmi Colorati takes its name after the discovery of a black-and-white mosaic of Pan fighting with Eros.
Frescoes from the tomb of Aelius Magnus and Aelia Arisuth in Oea
Altar of Sarmizegetusa by Hermadio
Torchbearer restored as Paris
Mithras petrogenitus of the Esquilino
Tauroctonia de Carnuntum (III ?)
Tauroctony relief from Villa Borghese
Votive plaque from Ballıhisar
Statue of a mother goddess with child
Plaque of Meknès
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the blue line passes exactly through Cancer, and the yellow line is for the resurrection among the…
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Here, does the bas-relief come from Ptuj, or from Frankfurt-Heddernheim?
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Gratias Pattie!
here’s a wonderful article, full of meanings to explain the different gods…
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I think it would depend on which end the flame was originally carved. Either way, he was burning a hand for sure!…
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Dear Behzad, You are, of course quite right. That said, the earliest account of the tauroctony…
Looking at the cult as a purely Roman construct, men having sex with men was as acceptable as it…
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I appreciate this article as it spawned and actual (gasp!) conversation on the facebook group…
Welcome my friend! Glad to see you.
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