We speak with Israel Campos Méndez about questions that continue to divide scholars: what links the Indo-Iranian Mithra to the deity worshipped in the Roman Empire, and what do we really know about the origins of Roman Mithraism?
Notitiae
Arguments for interpreting the Tomb of the Elephant as a Mithraeum based on architectural archaeology, digital surveying and archaeoastronomy.
Labors of Hercules as planetary zodiacal initiations: model mystagogy. The alchemy of Herculean labors.
Lenni George on Hekate’s development across ancient traditions, from mystery cults to magical practice and philosophical thought.
On what Hekate’s name may or may not tell us, and why the uncertainty matters.
Libri
Introductio
Press clips
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
The Mithraeum of Frutosus was in a temple assigned to the guild of the stuppatores.
The Nushijan Mithraeum testifies to the worship of Mithra in the region since before the Zoroastrian reform.
The Roman villa of Can Molodell had a sanctuary that has been related to the cult of Mithras.
The temple of Mithras in Fertorakos was constructed by soldiers from the Carnuntum legion at the beginning of the 3rd century AD.
Tauroctony from the Mithraeum III of Nida
Lápida mitráica de San Juan de la Isla
Tauroctony relief of Sidon
Cautes with an axe
Statue Base of Alfenius Ceionius Iulianus Kamenius
Tauroctony relief of the Esquiline
Altar of Gaius Iulius from Mérida
Altar of Carnuntum by the Augusti and Caesares
Altars to Cautes and Cautopates from Stefano Rotondo
Sententia
Thank you for sharing it and congratulations for your beautiful and interesting work.
I'm on it!
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Wouldn’t you be unveiling the secret doctrine?
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Dear Csaba , I am fascinated by your slab of Mithras with Cautes wearing a child in front of the bull…
thank you, dominique!!
By the way, Pattie, did you have a chance to visit any temples during your trip in Europe?
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By the way, there is this video by @nicolas.amoroso that tells a lot about mithraic images in the medieval times: https:…
