Tracing the links between the cult of Mithras and the Proud Boys’ quest for identity, power, and belonging. How ancient rituals and brotherhood ideals resurface in radical modern movements.
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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.
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.
Mysteriesofmithras/sandbox
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.
Agencia
The discovery of the Mithraeum of Tarquinia is due to the Department for Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Carabinieri, who noticed some clandestine excavations near the Ara della Regina.
The Mithraeum of Frutosus was in a temple assigned to the guild of the stuppatores.
On the Aventine, between the Eastern side of S. Saba’s and the Via Salvator, there is a Roman building, which probably was used as a Mithraeum in the end of the 4th century.
The few remains of the Mithraeum of Gimmeldingen are preserved at the Historical Museum of the Palatinate, in Speyer, Germany.
Two figures relief from Via Zanardelli
Intaglio with Tauroctony and Lion with bee
Intaglio with Mithras and Kabiros
Isis de Mérida
Mithraic vignettes of Ptuj
Petrogeny from Florence
Tauroctony found under the Palazzo Montecitorio (CIMRM 430)
CIMRM 880
Aion of Mérida
Sententia
Richard Gordon suggests the object on the Miles step is a bull’s hindquarter…
Same here!
Welcome to your grotto, Marcus!
No, I think it's not fun, but really superstition. The Romans all wore amulets, often with a phallus and a hand…
Pattie, you and I need to talk about those bits one of these days. I'd be glad to know more about them.
New excavations in the Villa del Mitra (Nov 22-February 23) have provided a room with benches and cooked bones…
Welcome my friend! Glad to see you.
on Hmd
I kinda see a pineapple...
on CIMRM 1743
Gratias Pattie!
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