The New Mithraeum Database tagged with sol

HBO Max's sci-fi series Raised By Wolves features a religious faction that references Sol and the Mithraic Mysteries. Here are the real-world Roman concepts the show borrowed from.

With this analysis of Sol images, Steven E. Hijmans paints a new picture of the solar cult in ancient Rome. The paucity of literary evidence led Hijmans to prioritize visual sources, and he opens this study with a thorough discussion of the theoretical an…

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.

These three fragments of carved marble depict Jupiter, Sol, Luna and a naked man wearing a Phrygian cap, with inscriptions calling Mithras Sanctus Dominum.

TNMM594 – CIMRM 332, 333

This magnificently illustrated publication renews the Mithraic dossier on the basis of concrete data, with caution and penetration. Marino's discovery is disconcerting and rekindles the controversy about the order in which bands should be read.

Sol watches Mithras as he gazes Mithras gazes up to heaven while sharing the sacred meal.

TNMM203 – CIMRM 49

A naked Sol leans over his fellow Mithras while raising his drinking-horn during the sacred feast.

TNMM291

This marble bust of Sol, found in the Mitreo di San Clemente, had five holes in the head where rays had been fixed.

TNMM738 – CIMRM 343

One of the altars from the Carrawburgh Mithraeum depicts the bust of Mithras or Sol.

TNMM180 – CIMRM 847, 848

This small altar found in Rome depicts the god Sol with five rays around his head.

TNMM329 – CIMRM 432, 433