Laurent Bricault has revolutionised Mithraic studies with the exhibition The Mystery of Mithras. Meet this professor in Toulouse for a fascinating look at the latest discoveries and what lies ahead.
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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 Mithraeum I in Stockstadt contained images of Mithras but also of Mercury, Hercules, Diana and Epona, among others.
One of the rooms of the villa has been interpreted as a mithraeum, but we do not have enough evidence to confirm this.
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 Mithraeum of Marino presents an unusually elongated structure with depictions from the Severian period.
Tauroctony from Toronto
Altar of Lucretius Mnester and Aemilius Philetus
Tauroctony from Sarrebourg
Mithras carrying the bull
CIMRM 358
Mithraic Sol altar with backlight of Bingen
CIMRM 1743
Feast from Mérida
Mithras petrogenitus of the Esquilino
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Welcome Veronica 💫
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It makes perfect sense. My hesitation would lie in the time gap that separates Mithraism and Freemasonry…
On the York Tauroctony from C. Wellbeloved, Eburacum (1842) This Mithraic group was found in the year 1747…
Benvenuto Milo! Un piacere...
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Gracias a ti, Alex. Me alegra que te resulte interesante.
Great. It's similar to the Mithraic temple in Maragheh, Iran. According to this photos…
Dear Joachim: To my knowledge, perhaps not the dative lionis, but the word leo is often found in the Mithraic context…
I know the Mithras site (since my childhood) at Carrawburgh and have worked at the APX Xanten…
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