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?
Notitiae
Arguments for interpreting the Tomb of the Elephant as a Mithraeum based on architectural archaeology, digital surveying and archaeoastronomy.
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.
On what Hekate’s name may or may not tell us, and why the uncertainty matters.
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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
The Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres (Sette Sfere) is of great importance for the understanding of the cult, because of its black-and-white mosaics depicting the planets, the zodiac and related elements.
The city of Hatra was famed for its fusion of several civilization cults, which several temples devoted to gods from all Indo-European world.
The Mithraeum of the Snakes preserves paintings of serpents, representing Genius Loci, part of an older private sanctuary, which were respected in the temple of Mithras.
A Mithraeum was discovered in 2007, during the excavations at the Zerzevan Castle.
Coin of the Kushan Emperor Kanishka I
Tauroctony from Sárkeszi
Taurcotony sculpture from Sidon
Votive plaque of Stockstadt
Tauroctony slab privately owned
Inscription of Secundinus of Lyon
Tauroctony from Leonardo Agostini book
Inscriptions of Eauze
Marble base of Atilius Bassus from Ostia
Sententia
AVE , Hello, I'd like to offer you a Platonic interpretation of the Trier Relief…
12 178 ROMA ROMA (Reg. IX) is part of the next entry and should be removed from here. ;-)
Not sure it’s on diplay but I’d never say no to a trip to Ostia Antica!
Dear Csaba , I am fascinated by your slab of Mithras with Cautes wearing a child in front of the bull…
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