Three European museums celebrate Mithras with a continental exhibition featuring more than 200 works of art from Roman times to the present day.
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At Rome’s twilight, amid political upheaval and Christian ascendancy, Vettius Agorius Praetextatus embodied pagan intellect, virtue, and authority across senatorial, military, and mystical spheres.
By reading Orphic theology together with Eleusinian ritual practice, the mysteries emerge as a structured mystagogy of transformation:…
This article revisits the Mithraeum of S. Maria Capua Vetere, one of the most complete and artistically refined Mithraic sanctuaries in the Campanian region, situating it within its archaeological, iconographic, and ritual-historical contexts.
In his first book, Fahim Ennouhi sheds light on the cult of Mithras in Roman Africa. A marginal and elitist phenomenon, confined to restricted circles and largely absent from local religious dynamics, yet revealing.
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Archaeologists at Doliche are now excavating houses around the vast Mithras temple to learn how people lived beside the sanctuary.
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The Mysteries of Mithras is an independent Initiatic Order which is inspired by and uses the allegory of the lost and ancient Mithraic Mysteries also known as Mithraism a previously influential Roman Cult of the same name.
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Over the last century or so, a great deal has been said about the god Mithras and his mysteries, which became known to the European world mainly through his Roman cultus during the Imperial Period.
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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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The Mithraeum of Martigny is the first temple devoted to Mithras found in Switzerland.
The city of Hatra was famed for its fusion of several civilization cults, which several temples devoted to gods from all Indo-European world.
The Mitreo dei Marmi Colorati takes its name after the discovery of a black-and-white mosaic of Pan fighting with Eros.
The Mithraeum of Ponza was discovered in 1866. It contained the remains of a zodiac investigated by Vermaseren in 1989.
Aion from Rome
Second tautoctony of Sî`
A man is initiated into the Mysteries of Mithras
Votive plaque from Ballıhisar
Stars of the Mitreo de Santa Maria Capua Vetere
Plaque with the list of worshippers of Virunum
Goblet of Angers
CIMRM 1410
Mithraic inscription from Anazarba
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I did not express myself well. I think that this golbe or ball is the soul but also of Plato's Anima Mundi…
CIMRM 807bis Vol 2, page 36
Indeed, Stephen. The catalogue is highly recommendable for all audiences, academic, professional and the simply curious…
On the York Tauroctony from C. Wellbeloved, Eburacum (1842) This Mithraic group was found in the year 1747…
Sorry, am disabled so marching round a museum has to be a limited event. But if I am going will let you know.
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the blue line passes exactly through Cancer, and the yellow line is for the resurrection among the…
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Welcome Hamed and thank you for your excellent group and posts. We *need* more!
Thanks for noticing! CC now, omnia recte ;)
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https://www.mithraeum.eu/group/anglo.mithraic.society
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