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
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.
The Mithraeum at Espronceda Street, in Merida, was discovered in 2000. It is a semi-subterranean temple.
An inscription mentioning a speleum decorated by Publilius Ceionius suggests the location of a mithraeum in Cirta, the capital of Numidia.
A Mithraeum was discovered in 2007, during the excavations at the Zerzevan Castle.
First Mithraic sanctuary discovered at Heddernheim (ancient Nida) in 1826, with finds preserved in the Städtisches Museum at Wiesbaden.
Two-register tauroctony from Ratiaria
Amethyst intaglio with Tauroctony
Tauroctony framed by acanthus leaves
Petrogeny from Sibiu
Two-register tauroctony from Philippopolis
Altar for Cautopates from Ptuj
Marble statues of Cautes and Cautopates from Rusicade
Black jasper tauroctony from the Seyrig collection
Prehistoric axe with Mithraic associations from Argolis
Sententia
The journey of the soul in the Mithraic ritual: hypothesis of resurrection or reincarnation…
on Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026
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Of course, the Moon’s axis passes through Cancer (summer solstice, the days shorten)…
Brilliant find. Thanks as usual!
On the basilica of Autun (1148) the journey is reversed: souls ascend to heaven by the Moon and…
He does indeed have a life jacket; it was mandatory for the Romans.
on a post
Sol and Luna are reversed, and Cautes is a lazy boy, with a column to hold up his arm…
Salve Isabelle, and thank you for pointing this out. You were right: the reference to Ad Enum was…
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