On universal traditions, local communities, initiation and ritual in the Roman cult of Mithras with Csaba Szabó.
Notitiae
An esoteric journey through Mithraic sanctuaries, blood symbolism, initiation, solar mysteries and the survival of the pagan spirit in the West.
A flaw in the dominant narrative or just the usual genealogy?
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.
Arguments for interpreting the Tomb of the Elephant as a Mithraeum based on architectural archaeology, digital surveying and archaeoastronomy.
Libri
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.
A mosaic of Silvanus, dated to the time of Commodus, was found in a niche in a nearby room of the Mithraeum in the Imperial Palace at Ostia.
The Mithraeum of Visentium, near Capodimonte in Viterbo, was carved grotto-style into a tuff cliff overlooking the waters of Lake Bolsena, just a few dozen metres away.
The remains of the Mithraeum of Aosta, also known as the Mitreo di Augusta Praetoria, were discovered in 1953 in insula 59, in a commercial district of the ancient city.
The Trier Mithräum was discovered during work on the city’s new fire station. The findings included a Cautes limestone relief.
Altar of Manius Cretinus from Gherla
Tauroctony from Carnuntum
Marble inscription for a cult image of Mithras from Rome
Altar to Petra Genetrix from Budapest
Tauroctony relief from Ozd
Altar to Deo Invicto Regi from Bandorf
Sandstone tauroctony relief from Petronell-Carnuntum
Fragment of a Mithraic tauroctony from Dacia
Terracotta krater from the Friedberg Mithraeum
Sententia
directed light and ideas of the cosmos could momentarily converge. Rather than depicting an actual ceremony…
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Salve Isabelle, and thank you for pointing this out. You were right: the reference to Ad Enum was…
Thanks for sharing, Hetanos. I haven’t had a chance to visit Garni yet, but it has been highly recommended to me…
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thank you, dominique!!
Aion is 545 I checked
Indeed: “In front of the altars lay a ritual hearth, fed with special fuel made from Mediterranean pinecones…
You can see, by the scoring in the "stone", that the corner was simply added to make it more…
Of course, Mithraism is a doctrine based on Chiasma, like Christianity and Platonism.
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