Restoring the Mysteries: A Conversation with Peter Mark Adams on his new book ‘Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras’.
Notitiae
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 Mithraeum has found in a Roman building at the end of Attila Road, in Hévíz, Egregy
The Nushijan Mithraeum testifies to the worship of Mithra in the region since before the Zoroastrian reform.
One of the rooms of the villa has been interpreted as a mithraeum, but we do not have enough evidence to confirm this.
The Mithraeum under the Basilica of San Clemente made part of a notable Roman house.
Inscription by Decimus from Lambaesis
Cautopates with a hooked stick of Nida
Head of Mithras from Santo Stefano Rotondo
Tauroctony from Ottaviano Zeno
Petrogeny from Santo Stefano Rotondo
Mithraic vignettes from Besigheim
Two figures relief from Via Zanardelli
Inscription on restauration of the Mitreo de Carsulae
Altar of Kalkar
Sententia
Thank you for the beautiful image and the information. I haven’t had the chance to visit it yet…
on CIMRM 618
Veronica, I surfed onto your profile and would like to assure you that Mithras welcomes everyone…
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On the York Tauroctony from C. Wellbeloved, Eburacum (1842) This Mithraic group was found in the year 1747…
Mmmm… do you mean this one?
on CIMRM 893
It’s much bluer in person.
on Intaglio with Mithras and Abraxas at the Walters Art Museum
I sincerely appreciate your response and the list of books you provided. Were your mentions of…
on Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026
Love the picture of both guys besides the statue. Aren't they called Cautes and Cautopates by a chance?
on Carabinieri recover a Mithras Tauroctony about to be sold on the black market
It will indeed be helpful to have up-to-date information from anyone who has just visited a temple…
Welcome Veronica 💫
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