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.
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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 Trier Mithräum was discovered during work on the city’s new fire station. The findings included a Cautes limestone relief.
The Mithraeum of Kunzing was an underground building, oriented east-west. The entrance was probably on the east.
In a house from the time of Constantine, a Lararium was found with a statue of Isis-Fortuna. The Mithraeum was a door next to it, on a lower room.
The Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus was discovered in 1931 during work carried out to create a storage area for the scenes and costumes of the Opera House within the Museums of Rome building.
Mithraic inscription from Anazarba
Bronze plaque of Mithras slaying the bull
Altar to Arimanius of the Esquilino
Mosaic of Fructus from the Mitreo del Sabazeo
Altar of Dioscorus from Alba Iulia
Intaglio with Tauroctony and Lion with bee
Dionysus group marble of London
Tauroctony from Ottaviano Zeno
Cautes with bull head of Sarmizegetusa
Sententia
I guess the author has made a mistake. The so called Casa del Mitreo has not provided any document related to Mithras cult…
And don’t forget the keys he’s carrying, another clear clue to his role...
Welcome Hamed and thank you for your excellent group and posts. We *need* more!
Trump derangement syndrome is something else.
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Vae tibi, qui sapientiam Magistri ignoras! Vere, ingenium Platonis in transpositione Babyloniorum…
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As of 2022 this piece is currently NOT on display.
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
Porphyry says that the cave isn’t only the symbol of the Cosmos, but also the symbol of invisible powers…
On the York Tauroctony from C. Wellbeloved, Eburacum (1842) This Mithraic group was found in the year 1747…
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