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Peter Mark Adams,
Mithras and the Renaissance

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.

Andreu Abuín

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Some places to visit

  • Mitreo di Lucrezio Menandro

    The Mithraeum of Lucretius Menander was installed in the early 3rd century in an alley to the east of a Hadrianic building named after the solar god temple.

     
  • Mithréum de Septeuil

    The Mithraeum of Septeuil, Yvelines, was accommodated at the 4th century in an oldest sanctuary of the source.

     
  • Mithräum von Mundelsheim

    The two altars found in the Mithraeum of Mundelsheim one of Sol and the other of Luna, are exposed in situ.

     
  • Mithräum von Saalburg

    In the 1900s a model Mithraeum was built in Saalburg in the mistaken belief that there was an original temple of Mithras in an ancient Roman building.

     

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Comments from visitors

Gabriel Simeoni

Interesting how even though we may confuse certain gods for ages, they remain somehow unique.

 

Gabriel Simeoni

Remarkable monument not only because it is the first sculpted representation of the entire Mithraic …

on Tauroctony 593

 

Gabriel Simeoni

Salve Dominique and thank you for all the additional parallels you mentioned. Since I wrote this lit…

 

The New Mithraeum

Welcome Mertseger. We do too ✨

 
 

Farokh Mehr

Mithra killing the Bull from behind also is the sign of Spring and victory of light over darkness. …

on Porphyry’s Cave of Nymphs
and the Cult of Mithras

 
 

Ale Fernandez

This is actually in San Giovanni al Timavo, a little way along from Duino itself. If you are in&…

on La grotta del Mitreo

 

The New Mithraeum

Dear Joachim: To my knowledge, perhaps not the dative lionis, but the word leo is often found in the…

on Mithraeum of Tienen

 

Gabriel Simeoni

By the way, there is this video by @nicolas.amoroso that tells a lot about mithraic images in the me…

 
 

Requi

Just read why they decided to continue to dig under the mithraeum before complaining: http://www.ang…

on Head of Mithras from Angers Mithraeum

 
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