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.
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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 the Seven Spheres (Sette Sfere) is of great importance for the understanding of the cult, because of its black-and-white mosaics depicting the planets, the zodiac and related elements.
The two altars found in the Mithraeum of Mundelsheim one of Sol and the other of Luna, are exposed in situ.
The Mithraeum of Ponza was discovered in 1866. It contained the remains of a zodiac investigated by Vermaseren in 1989.
This temple of Mithras in Aquincum was located within the private house of the decurio Marcus Antonius Victorinus.
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Terra sigillata bowl depicting the Mithraic cult meal from Trier
Inscription by Claudius Thermodon of Bolsena
Lion-headed Aion from Sidon
Tauroctony from Chrestos
CIMRM 1019
Goblet of Angers
Two Mithras-Attis terracotta from Kerch
Bronze Venus of Sidon
Sententia
Indeed, Stephen. The catalogue is highly recommendable for all audiences, academic, professional and the simply curious…
Interesting that the couch's covering isn't recognizable as the slain bull, though I'm not sure I…
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1899-1201-3 If this piece could be added, too, please…
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Richard Gordon suggests the object on the Miles step is a bull’s hindquarter…
Thank you for sharing @dominique.persoons It would be great if we can get it in a better definition.
Nonne speluncae instrumenta communicationis socialis et manipulatio populi, ars tantum inter tyrannos inventa…
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Dear Veronica, as a woman you cannot attend the ceremonies in the mithraeum. But you can help prepare the feast…
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British Museum: Gallery 70, display case 14 (G70/dc14)
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