Restoring the Mysteries: A Conversation with Peter Mark Adams on his new book ‘Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras’.
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Exploring religion, rituals, archaeological insights, and historical impact of the Cult of Mithras in the Danubian provinces.
Tracing the links between the cult of Mithras and the Proud Boys’ quest for identity, power, and belonging. How ancien…
Ernest Renan suggested that without the rise of Christianity, we might all have embraced the cult of Mithras. Nevertheless, it has had a lasting influence on secret societies, religious movements and popular culture.
Translation and Introductory Essay by Robert Lamberton. Station Hill Press Barrytown, New York 1983.
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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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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.
The Mithraeum of Inveresk, south of Musselburgh, East Lothian, is the first found in Scotland, and the earliest securely dated example from Britain.
The Barberini Mithraeum was discovered in 1936 in the garden of the Palazzo Barberini, owned by Conte A. Savorgnan di Brazza.
Workman digging in a field near Dormagen found a vault. Against one of the walls were found two monuments related to Mithras.
The Mithraeum of Saara, Syria, has been identified through the deciphering of the remains of the iconographic programme on its arch.
Mercury of Mérida
Fragments of a column base from Hamadan
Inscription of Valentinus Secundionis
Tauroctony stele of Nicopolis ad Istrum
Altar with Minerva and a water god
Mithras pantocrator of the Villa Altieri
Antiochus I shakes hands with naked Apollo-Mithras-Helios
Altar of Nummius Amandus from Alba Iulia
Tauroctony of Aelius Maximus of Turda
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Salve Dominique and thank you for all the additional parallels you mentioned. Since I wrote this lit…
on From Mithraism to Freemasonry. A history of ideas →this capital from the cloister of the abbey of Monreal in sicily dates from the 12th century and is …
on From Mithraism to Freemasonry. A history of ideas →!נהדר
on Mithraeum of Caesarea Maritima →It is magnificent. so better if you had a picture of the inside.
on Temple of Garni →Probably at home... but I’m at work. ;-) Will get back to you.
on Fragments of a column base from Hamadan →Hello Gabriel, the article you present on the relationship between the religion of the unconquered…
on From Mithraism to Freemasonry. A history of ideas →Does anyone know what the outcome of this was? Was a lower layer of paint revealed?
on CIMRM 484 →I live in Sarrebourg, where the famous mithraeum was found by the Germans in 1890. In the 3d century…
on Mitreo de Cabra →I think it would be helpful to include visiting information... I’m under the impression that some …
on Tauroctony of Santa Maria Capua Vetere →Libri