A theological experiment in Neo-Platonic realism, theology of arithmetic, and teleological metamorphoses of powers in the divine, terrestrial, and chthonic worlds across the cosmic symphony.
Notitiae
Arguments for interpreting the Tomb of the Elephant as a Mithraeum based on architectural archaeology, digital surveying and archaeoastronomy.
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?
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.
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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
On the occasion of the exhibition, the Royal Museum of Mariemont invites five experts from Europe to emulate the research on the cult of Mithras.
Second Mithraic sanctuary discovered in 1826 some 150 metres west of Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, with finds in the Wiesbaden museum.
Excavations in 1979 on the remains of the church of Notre-Dame d'Avigonet in Mandelieu, Alpes-Maritimes, brought to light a small mithraeum.
A Mithraeum was discovered in 2007, during the excavations at the Zerzevan Castle.
The 'Mithraic cave' in the Gradische/Gradišče massif near St. Egidio contained vessels decorated with snakes and the remains of chicken bones and other animals that were consumed during Mithraic ceremonies.
Marble lion statue from Intercisa
Votive altar to Deo Invicto from Wiesbaden
Rock-cut tauroctony relief from Rožanec
Votive altar to Mithras from Poetovio
Four-sided limestone altar from Trier
Prehistoric axe with Mithraic associations from Argolis
Red sandstone tauroctony from Heddernheim
Small fragment of a tauroctony from Cincșor
Altar for Cautopates from Ptuj
Sententia
You can see, by the scoring in the "stone", that the corner was simply added to make it more…
Here, does the bas-relief come from Ptuj, or from Frankfurt-Heddernheim?
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Of course, the Moon’s axis passes through Cancer (summer solstice, the days shorten)…
I’m trying to understand the few remaining vestiges of Mithras. Barberini’s fresco proves that…
Vae tibi, qui sapientiam Magistri ignoras! Vere, ingenium Platonis in transpositione Babyloniorum…
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An essential article for understanding the archaeoastronomical orientation of the Hawarte Mithraeum…
https://www.mithraeum.eu/quaere.php?tag=oceanus
On this, the sun and the moon are a common motif in Roman iconography, appearing of course on the…
Was working in the 2200s today and found an image of this tauroctony on Flickr…
