The torchbearers are at work. Expect the occasional flicker while we tend the grotto.
Lenni George on Hekate’s development across ancient traditions, from mystery cults to magical practice and philosophical thought.
Notitiae
On what Hekate’s name may or may not tell us, and why the uncertainty matters.
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.
Introductio
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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
On the Aventine, between the Eastern side of S. Saba’s and the Via Salvator, there is a Roman building, which probably was used as a Mithraeum in the end of the 4th century.
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.
The Mithraeum of Inveresk, south of Musselburgh, East Lothian, is the first found in Scotland, and the earliest securely dated example from Britain.
Sententia
I’m trying to understand the few remaining vestiges of Mithras. Barberini’s fresco proves that…
https://www.mithraeum.eu/group/anglo.mithraic.society
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Thank you for the beautiful image and the information. I haven’t had the chance to visit it yet…
on CIMRM 618
British Museum: Gallery 52, display case 5 (G52/dc5)
This him! ^__^ Now we need a better picture of that tauroctony.... ;-)
on CIMRM 893
I see pineapples everywhere
on CIMRM 1743
I'd have liked to see the face of the carabinieri when they discovered the sculpture.
on Carabinieri recover a Mithras Tauroctony about to be sold on the black market
Deo invicto regi; to God the invincible King. According to some relics, "lying down" means sea or river. Neptune or Oceanus…
on CIMRM 1017
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