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.
Notitiae
Arguments for interpreting the Tomb of the Elephant as a Mithraeum based on architectural archaeology, digital surveying and archaeoastronomy.
We speak with Israel Campos Méndez about questions that continue to divide scholars: what links the Indo-Iranian Mithra to the deity worshipped in the Roman Empire, and what do we really know about the origins of Roman Mithraism?
Labors of Hercules as planetary zodiacal initiations: model mystagogy. The alchemy of Herculean labors.
Lenni George on Hekate’s development across ancient traditions, from mystery cults to magical practice and philosophical thought.
Libri
Introductio
Press clips
Originally published in issue 4 of the journal Antaios, this essay advocates a pagan renewal of Europe informed by Evola, Jünger and the Traditionalist school.
Christopher Gérard
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
The site of Ay-Todor in Crimea revealed a Roman camp, a temple with votive offerings, and a Mithraeum.
In the 1900s a model Mithraeum was built in Saalburg in the mistaken belief that there was an original temple of Mithras in an ancient Roman building.
The Mithraeum of Inveresk, south of Musselburgh, East Lothian, is the first found in Scotland, and the earliest securely dated example from Britain.
The Mithraeum of Cyrene is preserved among the remarkable ruins of the ancient capital of the Roman province of Cyrene.
Cultores Inscription from Tiddis
Inscription to Sol Apollo Anicetus from Rudchester
Rock-crystal tauroctony gem from Paris
Bronze torchbearer from the Cabinet des Médailles
Funerary inscription of Publius Anthius Logus from Montpellier
Petrogenesis statue from Schachadorf
Slab of Cornelio from Trillo
Marble lion statue from Intercisa
Rock-cut tauroctony relief from Rožanec
Sententia
Brilliant find. Thanks as usual!
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Ego credo Platonis posteros doctrinam eius ita detorsisse, ut, pro luce quaerenda ad e spelunca exeundum…
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Nonne speluncae instrumenta communicationis socialis et manipulatio populi, ars tantum inter tyrannos inventa…
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Dear Amicus: as early as the 3rd century AD, Plotinus wrote that the soul was divided into a lower and a higher part: ".…
on Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026
Here, does the bas-relief come from Ptuj, or from Frankfurt-Heddernheim?
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Of course, the Moon’s axis passes through Cancer (summer solstice, the days shorten)…
