Peter Mark Adams: ‘The initiation was a frightening experience that caused some people to panic as a flood of otherworldly entities swept through the ritual space.’.
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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.
Introductio
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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 Ponza was discovered in 1866. It contained the remains of a zodiac investigated by Vermaseren in 1989.
Mithraeum III in Ptuj was built in two periods: the original walls were made of pebbles, while the extension of a later period was made of brick.
A Mithraeum was discovered in 2007, during the excavations at the Zerzevan Castle.
This temple of Mithras in Aquincum was located within the private house of the decurio Marcus Antonius Victorinus.
Inscription of Tarragona
Altar with Minerva and a water god
Head of Mithras at Nemrud Dag
Cautopates from Jajce
Cautes from Les Bolards
Tauroctony from Absalmos
Re-used Neolithic axe-head inscribed with a Tauroctony
Altar of Dioscorus from Alba Iulia
Aion of Arles
Sententia
We note the alignment: the dog, Mithras’ thigh, cape, raven and Sol; on the other side: bull…
We don’t have a website but we do have a Facebook page as the Longthorpe Legion, so please have a look and see what we do.
on Martin
CIMRM 2170 [ref:69cac135b3073]
Interesting that the couch's covering isn't recognizable as the slain bull, though I'm not sure I…
And what about the lily-like flower? Is it just me, or does it look like a opium poppy?
on CIMRM 1743
The sculpture was found, according to its discoverer, next to the western wall that delimits the impluvium…
nice image of a parthian king!
on Hatra Temple
Thank you, Jaime, for your clarification of this monument, previously identified as Mithraic…
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