The exhibition The Mystery of Mithras opens at the Mariemont Museum in Belgium, home of Franz Cumont, the father of studies on the solar god.
Notitiae
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.
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:…
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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.
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.
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The Mithraeum of Carminiello ai Mannesi was installed in two rooms of a 1st century BC domus.
The exploration of an old pazo, a manor house, near the Roman wall, in Lugo, led to the discovery of a Roman domus, which existed continuously from the beginnings of the Christian Era until the Late Empire.
The Trier Mithräum was discovered during work on the city’s new fire station. The findings included a Cautes limestone relief.
In the second half of the 4th century, a Mithraic temple was established within an earlier spring sanctuary at Septeuil, where the cult of the nymphs and Mithraic practices appear to have coexisted.
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I am interested in this as my 87 year old friend grew up in Burham and remembers a track she used…
CIMRM 1743 You’re as dyslexic as me! ;-) (Gotta love that the inventory number is stamped right on the stomach…
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En effet, des très belles œuvres de l'Antiquité à découvrir à la BnF.
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what exactly does it mean to be an "owner of a facebook group".. I set up a facebook group on…
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Hello Gabriel, the article you present on the relationship between the religion of the unconquered…
Strange! I am not in Rome, but I would expect it to be open every day, even more in the summer!…
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British Museum: Gallery 1 (G1/od/nr186)
"...probably an upturned vase with flowers." This needs an eye roll emoji. Seriously, what’s the likelihood?…
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If this phallus really belonged to the mithraeum where it is currently placed and not elsewhere…
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