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.
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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
The Mithra Temple of Maragheh, also referred to as the Mithra Temple of Verjuy or simply Mehr Temple, is the oldest surviving Mithraic temple in Iran known to date.
The Mithraeum of Inveresk, south of Musselburgh, East Lothian, is the first found in Scotland, and the earliest securely dated example from Britain.
The Mithraea of Doliche, ancient Dülük, Turkey, are unique in that they represent two distinct shrines on the same site.
The Mithréum de Bourg-Saint-Andéol was built against a rock where the main Tauroctony was chiseled.
Torchbearer statue from Antium
Aion relief of Mitreo Fagan
Tabula ansata from Brigetio
Petrogeny with hand on head from Nida
Tauroctony from Santo Stefano Rotondo
Intaglio with Tauroctony from The Met
Cautes and Cautópates of Palazzo Imperiale
Tauroctony from Donja Plemenšćina, Pregrada
Coin of Valerian and Sol
Sententia
Welcome Veronica 💫
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We don’t have a website but we do have a Facebook page as the Longthorpe Legion, so please have a look and see what we do.
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I think we were talking about two types of globes: you were mentioning the small spheres carried by certain figures…
Was working in the 2200s today and found an image of this tauroctony on Flickr…
thank you, dominique!!
Can anyone find a picture of this or take one when around? thx
And what about the lily-like flower? Is it just me, or does it look like a opium poppy?
Thrilled to help. =D
Excellent idea, Matthew. Count on us!
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