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Images of Mithra
With a history of use extending back to Vedic texts of the second millennium BC, derivations of the name Mithra appear in the Roman Empire, across Sasanian Persia, and in the Kushan Empire of southern Afghanistan and northern India during the first...
Tauroctony of Königshofen, Strasbourg
These fragments of a monumental relief of Mithras killing the bull were put together...
Altar of Carnuntum by the Jovians and Herculians
This monument bears an inscription and the representation of Cautes and Cautopates on the sides.
Lucius Septimius Archelaus
A freedman of Septimius Severus, he was Pater and priest of the invincible Mithras, as mentioned in a marble inscription found in Rome.
Marble slab with inscription from Mitreo Fagan
This monument bears an inscription that describes the god Mithra as young, which is quite unusual.
Volusius Irenaeus
Dedicated an statue of Arimanius in Eboracum, currently preserved at Yorkshire Museum.
Aion of York
The statue was found in 1874 under the city wall of York during the construction of the railway station.
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The Mithras conspiracy
Followers of an ancient cult threaten to overthrow the Italian government and destroy the Church. Rome is in chaos. Earthquakes shake the city. The pope is in a coma. And a Vatican scholar has been found dead in the Tiber.
Mithras
Mithras explores the history and practices of the ancient mystery religion Mithraism, looking at both literary and material evidence for the god Mithras and the reception and allure of his mysteries in the present.
If you want definitive proof that Mithraism was different in every corner of the empire, just read this book! What the hell was going on in Britannia? I admit that love pulp fiction and have been interested in Mithraism for so long that I expected to have fun with this one. I did, not as much as I'd have liked, but it's a read. You might think that Mithraism is a great subject for fiction. A novelist can amuse himself by filling in the many gaps that surround the cult. Yet Lukas Scott decides to reinvent the whole thing, content to keep a very light and often erratic skeleton to build his story. The characters lack volume. We don't know much about their backstories and that's probably for the best. A light plot seems to be building up behind the scenes, but not really, the whole thing decanting into a sort of a love story (or so Scott tells us) between a Brit and a Roman. And of course, they both have beautiful, strong, young, perfect muscular bodies with big, long johns. Other than th...
Legion of Lust
Young Roman soldier Titus is stationed in Britain just after Boadicea's rebellion, where he belongs to the mysterious and erotic Mithras cult.
Britain's best preserved Mithraeum - Carrawburgh on Hadrian's Wall
The archaeology of the Mithraeum at Carrawburgh
Vulgariser Mithra. Rencontre avec Jean-Christophe Piot
Jean-Christophe Piot a participé à la réalisation de l'exposition 'Le mystère Mithra' en réalisant des pastilles sonores sur certaines œuvres de l'exposition.
I think there is no trace of this mithraeum since long time ago...
Mithraeum de Vienne
Emperor Julian may have been initiated into the cult of the god Mithras at the Mithraeum of Vienne, France, according to Turcan.
Dans les coulisses de l'exposition « Le mystère Mithra. Plongée au cœur d'un culte romain »
Découvrez les coulisses de la réalisation et du montage de l'exposition « Le mystère Mithra. Plongée au cœur d'un culte romain ».