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Mithras in India and Iran

We propose to revisit a passage by the prolific author Marteen Vermaseren that highlights correspondences today forgotten between the Roman Mithras and its Eastern counterparts.

Maarten Jozef Vermaseren

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    A Man of the Gods and Mysteries

    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.

     
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    The Golden Chain of Initiation

    By reading Orphic theology together with Eleusinian ritual practice, the mysteries emerge as a structured mystagogy of transformation:…

     
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    Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere

    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.

     
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    Mithras in Africa

    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.

     
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  • Life around the world’s largest Mithras temple revealed at Doliche

    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

    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

  • The Mirror of Mithras

    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.

    P Sufenas Virius Lupus

  • A new mithraeum discovered during excavation in Trier

    A place of worship for the Roman god of light Mithras was discovered during archaeological excavations in Trier. This includes a larger relief.

  • Hallan en el yacimiento romano de Cabra (Córdoba) un lugar de culto al dios Mithra

    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

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Some places to visit

  • Mithräum von Riegel

    A votive altar referring to the cult of Mithras was found more than forty years before the site was excavated and the Mithraeum discovered.

     
  • Mitreo della Planta Pedis

    The floor of the central aisle of the Mithraeum of the Footprint in Ostia has a mosaic depicting a snake and a footprint.

     
  • Mithréum de Biesheim-Kunheim

    The Mithraeum of Biesheim-Kunheim is located near the ancient village of Altkirch, near the Rhin.

     
  • Mithraeum of Kapıkaya

    Mithras became the main deity worshipped in the sanctuary of Meter in Kapikaya, Turkey, in Roman times, at least until the fourth century.

     

Sententia

Guest insights

The New Mithraeum

Añadido al sitio, aquí: https://www.mithraeum.eu/notitia/the-discourse-on-the-eighth-and-ninth-868…

on London Mithraeum

 

The New Mithraeum

Thank you, Pattie. I’ll take a look at those balls and find the right place for them ;)

on Mithräum von Dormagen

 

The New Mithraeum

Thank you, Jaime, for your clarification of this monument, previously identified as Mithraic…

on Feast from Mérida

 

Jorge Gallo

hello @dominique.persoons This sphere with a single circle is quite unusual in Mithraic iconography…

on Cautes from Les Bolards

 

Dominique PERSOONS

Here, does the bas-relief come from Ptuj, or from Frankfurt-Heddernheim?

on a post

 

The New Mithraeum

And what about the lily-like flower? Is it just me, or does it look like a opium poppy?

on CIMRM 1743

 

The New Mithraeum

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on CIMRM 1743

 

Dominique PERSOONS

I live in Sarrebourg, where the famous mithraeum was found by the Germans in 1890…

on Mitreo de Cabra

 

The New Mithraeum

Not sure it’s on diplay but I’d never say no to a trip to Ostia Antica!

on CIMRM 893

 
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