It is well known that Mithras was born from a rock. However, less has been written about the father of the solar god, and especially about how he conceived him.
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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.
By reading Orphic theology together with Eleusinian ritual practice, the mysteries emerge as a structured mystagogy of transformation:…
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.
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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Archaeologists at Doliche are now excavating houses around the vast Mithras temple to learn how people lived beside the sanctuary.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Housesteads Mithraeum is an underground temple, now burried, discovered in 1822 in a slope of the Chapel Hill, outside of the Roman Fort at the Hadrian's Wall.
The Mithraeum Felicissimus has a floor mosaic depicting the seven mithraic grades.
The Mithraeum of Cyrene is preserved among the remarkable ruins of the ancient capital of the Roman province of Cyrene.
The underground cave which served as temple was cut into the conglomerate rock of the area, and a flight of eight steps of stone slabs led to it.
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Tauroctony from Arshawi-Kibar
Tauroctony from Viale Latino
Altar of Sarmizegetusa by Hermadio
Votive plaque from Ballıhisar
Tauroctony medallion of Egypt
Leontocephaline figure from Frankfurt
Two-sided relief of Dieburg
Coin of Valerian and Sol
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I see the Platonic Chiasmus on this fresco from Pompei. I think Mithras and Sol Apollo have nothing to see with earth…
Yes Madame. Its a white marble statue (H. 0.93), found in 1952 in Fuente de la Piedras, community of Cabra (prov. Cordova)…
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Thank you for your reply. My comment was in no way meant to be critical, I found the same information on the web…
So... you *were* an owner, like me, prior to being hacked. Why don’t you start another group?…
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Strange! I am not in Rome, but I would expect it to be open every day, even more in the summer!…
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CIMRM 807bis Vol 2, page 36
Another angle of the sanctuary, showing its open layout toward the road.
Here you go: 🙄
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