We speak with Israel Campos Méndez about questions that continue to divide scholars: what links the Indo-Iranian Mithra to the deity worshipped in the Roman Empire, and what do we really know about the origins of Roman Mithraism?
Notitiae
Arguments for interpreting the Tomb of the Elephant as a Mithraeum based on architectural archaeology, digital surveying and archaeoastronomy.
Labors of Hercules as planetary zodiacal initiations: model mystagogy. The alchemy of Herculean labors.
Lenni George on Hekate’s development across ancient traditions, from mystery cults to magical practice and philosophical thought.
On what Hekate’s name may or may not tell us, and why the uncertainty matters.
Libri
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
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
On the occasion of the exhibition, the Royal Museum of Mariemont invites five experts from Europe to emulate the research on the cult of Mithras.
Second Mithraic sanctuary discovered in 1826 some 150 metres west of Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, with finds in the Wiesbaden museum.
The Trier Mithräum was discovered during work on the city’s new fire station. The findings included a Cautes limestone relief.
The Mithraeum of Inveresk, south of Musselburgh, East Lothian, is the first found in Scotland, and the earliest securely dated example from Britain.
The Mithraeum I in Stockstadt contained images of Mithras but also of Mercury, Hercules, Diana and Epona, among others.
Tauroctony relief from Dülük
Sandstone base with Medusa and torchbearer from Carnuntum
Altar bearing a relief of Cautopates from Silistra
Two-register tauroctony from Ratiaria
Altar to Petra Genetrix from Aquincum
Tauroctony from Reșca
Slab of Cornelio from Trillo
Sandstone petrogenesis from Carnuntum
Marble relief fragment of Mithras from Apulum
Sententia
В египетски има дума heka което означава магия дори…
You’re doing a remarkable job (… and you’re the main reason I even venture onto fb 😉)
on Sandstone base with Medusa and torchbearer from Carnuntum
It is ironic that the logo of "the new mithraeum" represents the Platonic cosmic chiasma
Monism, chiasm, and dialectics: three principles of thought.
Thank you for sharing, much appreciated
Ego credo Platonis posteros doctrinam eius ita detorsisse, ut, pro luce quaerenda ad e spelunca exeundum…
on a post
Aion is 545 I checked
I believe that the top left corner does not come from this relief: there is no Sun facing the Moon…
There has to be a mistake somewhere because it hase same CIMRM number as "Aion of Villa Albani"
