A set of ancient inscriptions on marble found forty years ago in southern Italy, recording details so bewildering that scholars have kept silent about them. Strange evidence about a tradition of people who were mystics but who were so intensely practical that, two and a half thousand years ago, t
A TNM selection of books on Mithras, its cult, and related subjects.
In the centuries following the conquests of Alexander the Great the dramatic unification of the Mediterranean world created exceptionally fertile soil for the growth of new religions. Christianity, for example, was one of the innovative religious movement…
Très intelligente petite étude du dualisme et plus précisément d'un de ses deux principes, celui du mal, conduisant des peuples primitifs aux Bogomiles et aux Cathares, par l'Iran ancien, le satan de la tradition judéo-chrétienne, la gnose et le man…
The exhibition The Mystery of Mithras: Exploring the Heart of a Roman Cult is being presented at the Musée royal de Mariemont from 20 November 2021 to 17 April 2022, then at the Musée Saint-Raymond de Toulouse from 14 May 2022 to 30 October 2022, and la…
It is now more than thirty-five years ago that Professor Ferdinand Jozef de Waele guided my first steps in the rich field of archaeology at the University of Nijmegen. This compatriot of Franz Cumont and pupil of C. W. Vollgraff showed me the way to the s…
VIIIe siècle après Jésus-Christ : le culte de Mithra est devenu la religion officielle de l’Empire romain, et les autres cultes, dont celui de la petite secte chrétienne, sont férocement réprimés. Mais les mécontents s’agitent : peuples german…
Marcus Aurelius Antonius Augustus
Les Pensées pour moi-même ont été rédigées en grec par l’empereur romain Marc-Aurèle, entre 170 et 180 ap. J.C., souvent pendant ses campagnes militaires. Elles étaient à l’origine destinées à être détruites à la mort de son auteur. Mais…
Mithras is one of many in the pantheon of ancient gods, related to many, identical to many. The cult of Mithras offered one of many possibilities for finding community, cultic experience or salvation. In order to place the results of this study in their p…
Georges Dumézil, Les dieux des Indo-Européens. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1952. 1 vol. in-8°, 145 pp. (Mythes et Religions. Vol. 29). Prix : 300 frs fr. M. Dumézil publie ici le texte de quatre conférences faites à en 1951, ce qui…
The first and the third of the following essays written by Julius Evola are dedicated to the mysteries of Mithras, while the second essay concerns itself with the Roman Emperor, Julian. The first essay, published in the periodical Ultra (1926), describes …
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