For the launch of our YouTube channel, we chat with the author, poet, essayist and friend Peter Mark Adams about the Sola-Busca tarot, a Renaissance masterpiece, uncovering ties to the Mithras cult.
Andreu Abuín
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Laurent Bricault has revolutionised Mithraic studies with the exhibition The Mystery of Mithras. Meet this professor in Toulouse for a fascinating look at the latest discoveries and what lies ahead.
It is well known that Mithras was born from a rock. However, less has been written about the father of the solar god, and especially about how he conceived him.
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.
Yolanda’s multimedia dissertation focuses on the cognitive mechanisms that motivate Mithras worshippers. Her work includes a podcast entitled Conversations about Mithras.
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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.
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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.
Despite the current political landscape of the US, we can look to antiquity to see that the red cap was actually once a symbol of citizenship and welcome to the foreigner.
Sarah E. Bond
La Domus de Mitreo y el Centro Arqueolóxico de San Roque muestran otra cara del viejo Lugo
Lorena García Calvo
A mosaic of Silvanus, dated to the time of Commodus, was found in a niche in a nearby room of the Mithraeum in the Imperial Palace at Ostia.
The Mithraeum of Septeuil, Yvelines, was accommodated at the 4th century in an oldest sanctuary of the source.
A Mithraeum has been identified in Eleusis where the last Hierophant form thespia had the rank of Father in the Mithraic Mysteries.
The Mithraeum of Caernarfon, in Walles, was built in three phases during the 3rd century, and destroyed at the end of the 4th.
Frescoes with standing figures of Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte
Cautes des Bolards
Fragmented tauroctony of Dormagen
Key of Mithraeum III at Nida
Inscription of Olympus to his grandfather
Tauroctony of Târgușor
Relief de Bourg-Saint-Andéol
Plaque of Milan by Ulbius Gaianus
Second Cautes of Sidon holding an axe
Sententia
According to Robert J. Bull (February 2011) this Mithraeum has been demolished.
You might be interested in a digital reconstruction that I did of the 2nd c. AD tauroctonyhttps://tw…
There is a mixture of 2 mithraeums in the text. The first part and the inscriptions are about mithra…
Hey Behzad! I’m currently reading into Gnosticism and am hoping to make an article for the site co…
some pictures from 1895:
OK, I'm very confused about Jozef's description of this 'submission' scene. The standing person - pe…
Benvenuto Milo! Un piacere...
Interesting how even though we may confuse certain gods for ages, they remain somehow unique.
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