On the occasion of the discovery of a Mithraeum in Cabra, Spain, we talk to Jaime Alvar, a leading figure in the field of Mithraism. With him, we examine the testimonies known to date and the peculiarities of the cult of Mithras in Hispania.
Notitiae
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.
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.
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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.
There are references to two places of worship from Dieburg, whereby the Mithraeum, discovered in 1926.
The remains of the Mithraeum of Aosta, also known as the Mitreo di Augusta Praetoria, were discovered in 1953 in insula 59, in a commercial district of the ancient city.
A Mithraeum has been identified in Eleusis where the last Hierophant form thespia had the rank of Father in the Mithraic Mysteries.
Two Mithras sanctuaries, which were located on the edge of the settlement, were excavated in Güglingen.
Four-sided limestone altar from Trier
Tauroctony relief from Dülük
Tauroctony relief from Ozd
Funerary inscription of Publius Anthius Logus from Montpellier
Torchbearer head from Heddernheim
Triangular sandstone relief with crescent from Nida
Aion (?) from Janiculum Hill
Cup of Eutyches from Martigny
Tauroctony relief from Belkıs
Sententia
Indeed: “In front of the altars lay a ritual hearth, fed with special fuel made from Mediterranean pinecones…
Thank you for your testimony, great! And then, a Mithras stele without the Sun is like Jesus without the cross…
Was working in the 2200s today and found an image of this tauroctony on Flickr…
You can see, by the scoring in the "stone", that the corner was simply added to make it more…
Brilliant find. Thanks as usual!
;) and what about the armour!
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Salve Isabelle, and thank you for pointing this out. You were right: the reference to Ad Enum was…
salve. The site entry for Gaius Cassius Flavianus says there is attestation that he was part of the mithraeum at Ad Enum…
Of course, the Moon’s axis passes through Cancer (summer solstice, the days shorten)…
