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A Man of the Gods and Mysteries. On Vettius Agorius Praetextatus

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.

Mateusz Zalewski

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    The Golden Chain of Initiation

    By reading Orphic theology together with Eleusinian ritual practice, the mysteries emerge as a structured mystagogy of transformation:…

     
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    Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere

    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.

     
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    Mithras in Africa

    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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    Adams on Mithras

    Restoring the Mysteries: A Conversation with Peter Mark Adams on his new book ‘Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras’.

     
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  • Life around the world’s largest Mithras temple revealed at Doliche

    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

    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

  • The Mirror of Mithras

    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.

    P Sufenas Virius Lupus

  • A new mithraeum discovered during excavation in Trier

    A place of worship for the Roman god of light Mithras was discovered during archaeological excavations in Trier. This includes a larger relief.

  • Hallan en el yacimiento romano de Cabra (Córdoba) un lugar de culto al dios Mithra

    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

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Some places to visit

  • Mithraeum of Inveresk

    The Mithraeum of Inveresk, south of Musselburgh, East Lothian, is the first found in Scotland, and the earliest securely dated example from Britain.

     
  • Mithräum von Künzing

    The Mithraeum of Kunzing was an underground building, oriented east-west. The entrance was probably on the east.

     
  • Mitreo Barberini

    The Barberini Mithraeum was discovered in 1936 in the garden of the Palazzo Barberini, owned by Conte A. Savorgnan di Brazza.

     
  • Mithräum von Saalburg

    In the 1900s a model Mithraeum was built in Saalburg in the mistaken belief that there was an original temple of Mithras in an ancient Roman building.

     

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The New Mithraeum

Thank you, Jaime, for your clarification of this monument, previously identified as Mithraic…

on Feast from Mérida

 

Dominique PERSOONS

No, I think it's not fun, but really superstition. The Romans all wore amulets, often with a phallus and a hand…

on Phallus relief from the Mithraeum of Tiddis

 

Jorge Gallo

Gracias a ti por unirte. Abrazos!

on a post

 

Gaby Simeoni

Gracias a ti, Alex. Me alegra que te resulte interesante.

on Del mitraísmo a la masonería. Una historia de las ideas

 

The New Mithraeum

Thank you for the beautiful image and the information. I haven’t had the chance to visit it yet…

on Mithréum de Septeuil

 

Gabriel Simeoni

Papa, the Pope in Latin, would be short for Pater Patrum 🤔. It’s a clever statement…

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Pattie L

Spent the day trying to find a better image of the tauroctony surround on the right in the case..…

on CIMRM 893

 

Dominique PERSOONS

this capital from the cloister of the abbey of Monreal in sicily dates from the 12th century and is very disturbing…

on From Mithraism to Freemasonry. A history of ideas

 

Jorge Gallo

Interesting… but I think there might be a mix-up here. I mean everyone is entitled to their own…

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