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Let’s talk about Mithras with Yolanda De Iuliis

Yolanda’s multimedia dissertation focuses on the cognitive mechanisms that motivate Mithras worshippers. Her work includes a podcast entitled Conversations about Mithras.

The New Mithraeum

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News and articles
from The New Mithraeum

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    A Man of the Gods and Mysteries

    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.

     
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    The Golden Chain of Initiation

    By reading Orphic theology together with Eleusinian ritual practice, the mysteries emerge as a structured mystagogy of transformation:…

     
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    Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere

    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.

     
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    Mithras in Africa

    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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  • Life around the world’s largest Mithras temple revealed at Doliche

    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

    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

  • The Mirror of Mithras

    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.

    P Sufenas Virius Lupus

  • A new mithraeum discovered during excavation in Trier

    A place of worship for the Roman god of light Mithras was discovered during archaeological excavations in Trier. This includes a larger relief.

  • Hallan en el yacimiento romano de Cabra (Córdoba) un lugar de culto al dios Mithra

    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

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Some places to visit

  • London Mithraeum

    The Mithraeum of London, also known as the Walbrook Mithraeum, was contextualised and relocated to its original site in 2016.

     
  • Casa del Mitreo

    The name of this domus comes from the fact that some authors once associated one of its mosaics with the cult of Mithras, a connection that has since been dismissed.

     
  • Mithraeum of Hawarti

    The Mithraeum of Hauarte or Hawarte, which preserves colourful frescoes, it's the latest know and used.

     
  • Mitreo de Cabrera de Mar

    The Roman villa of Can Molodell had a sanctuary that has been related to the cult of Mithras.

     

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on Randazzo Vecchio

 

nathalie barki

Hello, I am new here. How can I contact you privately for the images rights?

on Mitreo dels Munts

 

Dominique PERSOONS

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

on a post

 

Matthew K

Hey Behzad! I’m currently reading into Gnosticism and am hoping to make an article for the site…

on a post

 

Dominique PERSOONS

here is the altar of Sarrebourg , picture tooken in 1890.

on Tauroctony from Sarrebourg

 

Gaby Simeoni

Pattie, you and I need to talk about those bits one of these days. I'd be glad to know more about them.

on From Mithraism to Freemasonry. A history of ideas

 

Dominique PERSOONS

337 At the Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, the image reveals Oceanus and Terra in opposition…

on Mitreo di Santa Prisca

 

The New Mithraeum

Welcome to your grotto, Marcus!

on Marcus Cassius

 
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