By reading Orphic theology together with Eleusinian ritual practice, the mysteries emerge as a structured mystagogy of transformation: a disciplined passage from forgetfulness (Lethe) to knowledge (aletheia), from mortality to participation in the divine.
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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.
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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The temple of Mithras of Carrawburgh, Brocolita, disclosed three main stages of development, the second exhibiting two reconstructions.
There are references to two places of worship from Dieburg, whereby the Mithraeum, discovered in 1926.
Mithras and other oriental gods were worshipped in the shrine of Zeus near the Villa of the Quintilians in Rome.
Excavations in 1979 on the remains of the church of Notre-Dame d'Avigonet in Mandelieu, Alpes-Maritimes, brought to light a small mithraeum.
Altar with openwork of Inveresk
CIMRM 370 & 371
CIMRM 939 = 1324
Taurcotony statue of the Esquiline Hill
Altar with inscription of Künzing
Tauroctony on display in Boston
Tauroctony relief of Sarmizegetusa
Inscription of Corax Materninius Faustinus of Gimmeldingen
Intaglio of Abraxas and Mithras
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Greeaaaaaaat. Now I’m flying to Chicago. ;-) Thanks for the heads up.
This him! ^__^ Now we need a better picture of that tauroctony.... ;-)
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here’s a wonderful article, full of meanings to explain the different gods…
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Thank you, Jaime, for your clarification of this monument, previously identified as Mithraic…
Gracias por compartir tu artículo, Roberto. Es difícil determinar en qué momento la masonería…
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Presumably, this camay served as a buffer, so it was depicted upside down, with the moon on the…
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