Ernest Renan suggested that without the rise of Christianity, we might all have embraced the cult of Mithras. Nevertheless, it has had a lasting influence on secret societies, religious movements and popular culture.
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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.
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.
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The Mithraeum of Carminiello ai Mannesi was installed in two rooms of a 1st century BC domus.
Set in a Roman necropolis, the so-called Mithraeum of the Elephant takes its name from an elephant statue found in one of the tombs.
The Mithraeum des Bolards was integrated into a therapeutic cultural complex related to healing waters.
The few remains of the Mithraeum of Gimmeldingen are preserved at the Historical Museum of the Palatinate, in Speyer, Germany.
Mosaic of Fructus from the Mitreo del Sabazeo
Tauroctony from La Bâtie-Montsaléon
Giant from Santa Prisca
CIMRM 370 & 371
Aion from Rome
Altar by Flavius Lucilianus from Aveia
Altar of Faustinus from Gimmeldingen
Stars of the Mitreo de Santa Maria Capua Vetere
Mithras taurophorus of Ptuj
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CIMRM 1655
Salve Pattie. I suspect they have been merged because there is not much information on them other…
nice image of a parthian king!
on Hatra Temple
I think it would be helpful to include visiting information... I’m under the impression that some…
It makes perfect sense. My hesitation would lie in the time gap that separates Mithraism and Freemasonry…
CIMRM 2170 [ref:69cac135b3073]
It’s much bluer in person.
on Intaglio with Mithras and Abraxas at the Walters Art Museum
Is the Date on the side correct? I guess it’s not 32 cm but 3,6 cm. Or am I wrong?
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