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Let’s talk about Mithras with Yolanda De Iuliis

Yolanda’s multimedia dissertation focuses on the cognitive mechanisms that motivate Mithras worshippers. Her work includes a podcast entitled Conversations about Mithras.

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  • Life around the world’s largest Mithras temple revealed at Doliche

    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

    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

  • The Mirror of Mithras

    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.

    P Sufenas Virius Lupus

  • A new mithraeum discovered during excavation in Trier

    A place of worship for the Roman god of light Mithras was discovered during archaeological excavations in Trier. This includes a larger relief.

  • Hallan en el yacimiento romano de Cabra (Córdoba) un lugar de culto al dios Mithra

    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

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Some places to visit

  • Mitreo de Cabrera de Mar

    The Roman villa of Can Molodell had a sanctuary that has been related to the cult of Mithras.

     
  • Mithraeum of Tiddis

    The Mithraeum was housed in a cave. The vault is almost dome-shaped and in front of the cave there is enough space for a possible adjacent temple.

     
  • Mitreo del caseggiato di Diana

    The Mithraeum of the House of Diana was installed in two Antonine halls, northeast corner of the House of Diana, in the late 2nd or early 3rd century.

     
  • 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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Great shot! Thanks for sharing, Pattie. We’d need a reference though, not go our entire database ;…

on a post

 

Matthew K

Dear newcomers, kindly complete this questionnaire to the best of your abilities in this thread…

on Mount Nemrut Dağı

 

The New Mithraeum

Thank you, Pattie. We have automatically added a number of references that indeed need revision!

on CIMRM 418

 

Waraz-shapur Sassanid

My cult here works with those thing with what said in avesta. I wanna know we are doing right or wrong…

on a post

 

Dominique PERSOONS

AVE , Hello, I'd like to offer you a Platonic interpretation of the Trier Relief…

on Mithras rock-birth of Trier

 

The New Mithraeum

Thank you for sharing, Yannick. Our factsheet here: https://www.mithraeum.eu/monument/1399

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