Roger Beck describes Mithraism from the point of view of the initiate engaging with the religion and its rich symbolic system in thought, word, ritual action, and cult life.
Die Mitrasreligion war eine der Formen, in denen die kosmische Frömmigkeit der Spätantike Ausdruck fand. Im Zentrum des Heiligtums stand das Relief des Mithras, der den Stier opfert. Die Kultstätten waren als Höhlen konstruiert und entsprachen der Hö…
« Voici un livre écrit dans l'enthousiasme, et capable de susciter des vocations. Il s'adresse à un public assez large, ce qui en excuse d'avance certains rapprochements un peu gros et certaines redites, point inutiles quand il s'agit de notions ou de …
The Aion / Phanes relief, currently on display in the Gallerie Estensi, Moneda, is associated with two Eastern mysteric religions: Mithraism and Orphism.
TNMM327 – CIMRM 695, 696
Euphrosy/n[e] et Felix. P(ecunia) p(osuit) / Felix pater.
In this relief of Mithras as bull slayer, recorded in 1562 in the collection of A. Magarozzi, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by trees still bearing the torches.
The relief of Mithra slaying the bull from Apulum, Romania, has been missing until the scholar Csaba Szabó identified it in the diposit of the Arad Museum.