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Mithras, a glocal god?

On universal traditions, local communities, initiation and ritual in the Roman cult of Mithras with Csaba Szabó.

Andreu Abuín
Andreu Abuín

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Some places to visit

  • 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.

     
  • Mithraeum I of Stockstadt

    The Mithraeum I in Stockstadt contained images of Mithras but also of Mercury, Hercules, Diana and Epona, among others.

     
  • Mithräum von Künzing

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

     
  • Mithréum de Lucciana

    For the first time, a Mithraeum has been discovered in Corsica, at the site of Mariana, Lucciana (Haute-Corse).

     

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Guest insights

Pattie L

You can see, by the scoring in the "stone", that the corner was simply added to make it more…

on Tauroctony relief from Naples

 

Alejandro Jiménez Hernández

An essential article for understanding the archaeoastronomical orientation of the Hawarte Mithraeum…

on Mithraeum of Hawarte

 

Dominique PERSOONS

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

on Tauroctony relief from Naples

 

Dominique PERSOONS

I don’t understand why he needs a shower cap to go surfing.

on a post

 

Dominique PERSOONS

Ave, dear Andreu, Christianity is contemporary with Mithras and indeed borrows the Platonic chiasma…

on Tauroctony relief from Naples

 

The New Mithraeum

Hi Yannick, thanks for checking. Just to clarify, 545 is the TNMM number, not the CIMRM number.

on Cautopates in the Walters Art Museum

 
 

Pattie L

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on Tauroctony from Dragu

 

Isabelle Waine

salve. The site entry for Gaius Cassius Flavianus says there is attestation that he was part of the mithraeum at Ad Enum…

on Mithraeum of Inveresk

 
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