Yolanda’s multimedia dissertation focuses on the cognitive mechanisms that motivate Mithras worshippers. Her work includes a podcast entitled Conversations about Mithras.
Notitiae
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.
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
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.
Agencia
In a house from the time of Constantine, a Lararium was found with a statue of Isis-Fortuna. The Mithraeum was a door next to it, on a lower room.
The Mithraeum I of Ptuj contains the foundation, altars, reliefs and cult imagery found in it.
One of the rooms of the villa has been interpreted as a mithraeum, but we do not have enough evidence to confirm this.
The first members of the Wiesloch Mithraeum may have been veterans from Ladenburg and Heidelberg.
Lion relief from Nemrut Dag
Head of Mithras from Santo Stefano Rotondo
Initiation scene from Capua Vetere
Sol in quadriga of Entrains
Mithraic Sol of Piazza Dante
Altar of Flavius Verecundus from Carnuntum
Tauroctony relief from Şehitkamil (Gaziantep)
Petrogeny from Florence
Cautes from Boppard
Sententia
Excellent idea ;)
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We note the alignment: the dog, Mithras’ thigh, cape, raven and Sol; on the other side: bull…
The sculpture was found, according to its discoverer, next to the western wall that delimits the impluvium…
Indeed Yannick. The right size is 3.6 cm diameter. Thank you.
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Another angle of the sanctuary, showing its open layout toward the road.
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I appreciate this article as it spawned and actual (gasp!) conversation on the facebook group…
Dear newcomers, kindly complete this questionnaire to the best of your abilities in this thread…
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