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.
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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.
Restoring the Mysteries: A Conversation with Peter Mark Adams on his new book ‘Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras’.
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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.
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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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This shrine developed towards the end of 2nd century and remained active until beginning 4th.
The Mackwiller Mithraeum was built in the middle of the 2nd century, during the reign of Antoninus the Pious, on the site of a spring already worshipped by the natives.
The two altars found in the Mithraeum of Mundelsheim one of Sol and the other of Luna, are exposed in situ.
The Mithraeum of Frutosus was in a temple assigned to the guild of the stuppatores.
Floor mosaic of Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale
Inscription by Claudius Thermodon of Bolsena
Tauroctony relief from Ladenburg
Inscription of Secundinus of Lyon
Tauroctony from Monreale
Tauroctony from Dunaújváros (Intercisa)
Slab from the Palace of Darius at Persepolis
Tauroctony from the Collezione Torlonia
Cautes from Les Bolards
Sententia
Probably at home... but I’m at work. ;-) Will get back to you.
Gracias a ti por unirte. Abrazos!
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My point is not to disrespect your faith but to suggest that both the archangel and the deity have…
on Mithraism As Proud Boy Prototype: Underground Clubs of the Syndexioi and Pueri Superbi
It’s like I’m being followed... but in a good way. ^__^
on CIMRM 1694
Remarkable monument not only because it is the first sculpted representation of the entire Mithraic tauroctony…
I don’t understand why he needs a shower cap to go surfing.
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And don’t forget the keys he’s carrying, another clear clue to his role...
on CIMRM 571
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I see pineapples everywhere
on CIMRM 1743
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