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I love villagers with huge heads!

Mithras emerging from the rock with torch and dagger beside a reclining Oceanus or Saturn.

Studying Science of Religions (UC3M). Mithraeum at Lucus Augusti, comparative religion and symbolism in general.

Name: Dr. Hadi Valipour
Date of Birth: August 26, 1983
Place of Birth: Iran
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Eastern Religions, specializing in An

Traveler down the rabbit hole discovering links between Freemasonry and Mithraism

Le culte de Mithra : Une religion iranienne qui se répand à Rome et dans son empire.

Latin writer, Platonic philosopher and rhetorician.

Deux extraits rapportés par Eznik de Goghp, Ve siècle, sur la création du Soleil selon les mythologies des mages.

PhD Thesis by Vittoria Canciani, coordinated by A. Mastrocinque. Verona, 14th April 2022.

Interpreting the Bas-relief of Mithras Tauroctonos from Osterburken in the Light of Porphyry’s Treatise, The Cave of the Nymphs.

Commentaries by Pseudo-Nonnus, also known as Nonnus the Abbot, on Gregory Nazianzen’s In Julianum Imperatorem Invectivae Duae and In Sancta Lumina.

It is well known that Mithras was born from a rock. However, less has been written about the father of the solar god, and especially about how he conceived him.

Bronze statuette of Mithras in his characteristic bull-slaying pose, though only the god has been preserved.

The site of Ay-Todor in Crimea revealed a Roman camp, a temple with votive offerings, and a Mithraeum.

This relief of Mithras killing the bull includes an unusual owl at the feet of Cautopates and a cock next to Cautes.