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.
Notitiae
Lenni George on Hekate’s development across ancient traditions, from mystery cults to magical practice and philosophical thought.
On what Hekate’s name may or may not tell us, and why the uncertainty matters.
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:…
Introductio
Press clips
Archaeologists at Doliche are now excavating houses around the vast Mithras temple to learn how people lived beside the sanctuary.
Newsroom
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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Excavations in 1979 on the remains of the church of Notre-Dame d'Avigonet in Mandelieu, Alpes-Maritimes, brought to light a small mithraeum.
The large number of monuments found at the Mithraeum of Sarmizegetusa and the sheer size of the temple are unusual.
The Roman villa of Can Molodell had a sanctuary that has been related to the cult of Mithras.
According to Hitzinger remnants of animal bones were found in front of the relief of the Mithraeum at Rozanec.
Petrogeny from Aquileia
Intaglio with Mithras and Abraxas at the Walters Art Museum
Sandstone petrogenesis from Carnuntum
Cautes Borcovicus
Torchbearer restored as Paris
Tauroctony from Vermaseren's private collection
Terracotta krater from the Friedberg Mithraeum
Altars to Cautes and Cautopates from Stefano Rotondo
Parthian dipinto from Dura-Europos
Sententia
Dear Behzad, You are, of course quite right. That said, the earliest account of the tauroctony…
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There is a mixture of 2 mithraeums in the text. The first part and the inscriptions are about mithraeum of Victorinus (II…
Great. It's similar to the Mithraic temple in Maragheh, Iran. According to this photos…
Excellent idea, Matthew. Count on us!
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Remarkable monument not only because it is the first sculpted representation of the entire Mithraic tauroctony…
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It’s much bluer in person.
on Intaglio with Mithras and Abraxas at the Walters Art Museum
Better image from Mitrei Ostia. What we need is a road trip to go see it ourselves. I call shot gun!!
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