Mithraïsme et émancipation. Anthropologie sociale et culturelle des mouvements populaires en Iran : au VIIIe, IXe et du XIVe au début du XVIe siècle
Jusqu'à présent, le mithraïsme était considéré comme un culte appartenant à un passé lointain n'ayant guère laissé de traces. L'auteur met en lumière la continuité du mithraïsme à l'époque islamique, son rôle primordial dans l'animation et la continuité des mouvements populaires de …
Books on Mithras
A TNM selection of books on Mithras, its cult, and related subjects.
The Mithraic Origin and Meanings of the Rotas-Sator Square
My intention in this study is to propose a comprehensive resolution of the ROTAS-SATOR enigma in which I maintain the following points: (1) the square is Mithraic, for the Mithraic triad is present: Saturnus-Aion, Sol Invictus and Mithra; (2) the words of…
The cult of Mithra as it developed in the West, its origins, its features, and its probable connection with Mithra worship in Iran
For most of the twentieth century the major problem addressed by scholarship on both Roman Mithraism and the Iranian god Mithra was the question of continuity. Did Mithra-worship migrate from Iran to the Roman Empire in some institutional form or was Mith…
Les Métamorphoses ou l'âne d'or
Jubilant dans le baroque aux confins de l'érotisme, du fantastique et de la mort, Les Métamorphoses d’Apulée (IIe siècle), seul roman latin dont nous possédions le texte intégral, racontent à la première personne les tribulations d’un naïf tr…
The Mithras Conspiracy
Followers of a revived version of Mithraism in contemporary Italy threaten to overthrow the government and destroy the Vatican. 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…
Archäologie des Mithraskultes. Architektur und Kultpraxis am Beispiel der Tempel von Güglingen, Kreis Heilbronn
In 1999 and 2002, two mithraeums were discovered in Güglingen. The first was a stone building and at the time of its discovery had already been stripped of almost all its temple furnish
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