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Mithraism As Proud Boy Prototype: Underground Clubs of the Syndexioi and Pueri Superbi

Tracing the links between the cult of Mithras and the Proud Boys’ quest for identity, power, and belonging. How ancient rituals and brotherhood ideals resurface in radical modern movements.

Dave Fingrut
Dave Fingrut

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Some places to visit

  • Mitreo Sacellum delle Tre Navate

    The Mithraeum in the Chapel of the Three Naves was not linked to the cult of Mithras until recently because of a mosaic showing a pig, in the belief that it was an animal unfit for consumption in a temple of Eastern origin.

     
  • Temple of Garni

    After Christianity was adopted, most pagan monuments were destroyed or abandoned. Garni, however, was preserved at the request of the sister of King Tiridates II and used as a summer residence for Armenian royalty.

     
  • Mitreo della Planta Pedis

    The floor of the central aisle of the Mithraeum of the Footprint in Ostia has a mosaic depicting a snake and a footprint.

     
  • Mithräum von Trier

    The Trier Mithräum was discovered during work on the city’s new fire station. The findings included a Cautes limestone relief.

     

Sententia

Guest insights

Dominique PERSOONS

The journey of the soul in the Mithraic ritual: hypothesis of resurrection or reincarnation…

on Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026

 

Yannick Schmidt

There has to be a mistake somewhere because it hase same CIMRM number as "Aion of Villa Albani"

on Cautopates in the Walters Art Museum

 
 

Dominique PERSOONS

He does indeed have a life jacket; it was mandatory for the Romans.

on a post

 

The New Mithraeum

Many thanks, Kutalmış. The record has now been corrected and your 2017 publication added as the original reference…

on Tauroctony relief from Belkıs

 

Dominique PERSOONS

Dear Amicus: as early as the 3rd century AD, Plotinus wrote that the soul was divided into a lower and a higher part: ".…

on Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026

 

Dominique PERSOONS

Of course, Mithraism is a doctrine based on Chiasma, like Christianity and Platonism.

on Tauroctony relief from Naples

 

Dominique PERSOONS

Nonne speluncae instrumenta communicationis socialis et manipulatio populi, ars tantum inter tyrannos inventa…

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