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Acta diurna is our Mithraic social stream for keeping up to date with what is happening in The New Mithraeum.

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Aug 2025
NewTractatus

Life of Pompey

Passage from Plutarch’s Life of Pompey, recounting the rise, power, and insolence of the Cilician pirates before Pompey’s campaign to suppress them.
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Aug 2025
NewMonumentum

Base with inscription of Priscus Eucheta to Navarze

This inscription, which doesn’t mention Mithras, was found near the church of Santa Balbina on the Aventine in Rome.
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Aug 2025
Syndexios

Terentius Priscus

He was initiated and cured thanks to the invincible Nabarze.
I’m working on this inscription, and I’m not sure if you’ve understood and translated it correctly. If you assume that the person dedicating the altar was Terentius Priscus Eucheta, son of Publius, it means that the word "curante" is not followed or preceded by any word in the ablative case. I think that Manfred Clauss’s idea (Cultores Mithrae, p. 20-21) that the altar was dedicated by Terentius Priscus "under the supervision/guidance of Eucheta" (Eucheta curante) is a better interpretation. The suggested translation then would be: "Terentius Priscus, son of Publius, dedicated (or presented as a gift according to the vow) to the god Invictus Nabarze, under the guidance of Eucheta and together with other worshipers."
Salve Aleš, I’ve checked the translation you mention and agree that Eucheta is more likely the curans than the donor’s cognomen. I’ve updated the monument page accordingly. Most details there come from the cited source, so you may wish to reach out to the authors for further discussion. Thanks, as always, for pointing it out.
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Aug 2025
Scriptum
Great shot! Thanks for sharing, Pattie. We’d need a reference though, not go our entire database 😉
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Aug 2025
Scriptum
I’m excited to finally have my copy of ‘Ritual and Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras’ by @peter.mark.adams! The book is now officially available. Feel free to share your thoughts—I’d love to hear what you all think!
I’m excited to finally have my copy of ‘Ritual and Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras’ by Peter Mark Adams! The book is now officially available. Feel free to share your thoughts—I’d love to hear what you all think!
Everyone crowds around to see which books they have in common. 😉
Nice collection, Levin! Thanks for sharing. Alwats a pleasure peeking at the shelves of fellow explorers of the mysteries
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Jul 2025
NewMonumentum

Mithräum von Saalburg

In the 1900s a model Mithraeum was built in Saalburg in the mistaken belief that there was an original temple of Mithras in an ancient Roman building.
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Jul 2025
NewSocius
I organized the conference Roman Mithraism, the evidence of the small finds.
Jul 2025
NewTractatus

De Abstinentia

Two extracts from De abstinentia ab esu animalium by Porphyry on sacrifices and the importance of abstinence from animal food among Persian Magi.
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Jul 2025
NewSocius
Creative strategist, writer, history nerd, AI enthusiast
Jul 2025
NewSocius
writer, web developer
writer, web developer
Jun 2025
NewSocius
Y DNA E-M183/E-M81 Roman Numidian & Celtic Scot/Brit from Borders of Scotland and England (desc. from Numidian Tribunes/Prefects of Hadrians & High Rochester)
Y DNA E-M183/E-M81 Roman Numidian & Celtic Scot/Brit from Borders of Scotland and England (desc. from Numidian Tribunes/Prefects of Hadrians & High Rochester)
Jun 2025
NewMonumentum

Tauroctony relief from Şehitkamil (Gaziantep)

New evidence for the cult of Mithras and the religious practices of Legio IV Scythica at the Roman frontier city of Zeugma on the Euphrates.
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Jun 2025
NewSocius
Apenas um pesquisador.
Sou maçom e tenho estudado muito o assunto.
Jun 2025
NewSocius
Commercial translator, freemason, edito of the blog bibliot3ca.com
 
Jun 2025
NewScriptum
Dormagen Mithraum
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Jun 2025
NewScriptum
Join us for a special webinar with professor, writer and host of The New Mithraeum podcast @andreu.abuin, interviewing acclaimed esoteric scholar @peter.mark.adams on his ground breaking latest book, Ritual and Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras.

Having previously authored The Game of Saturn, Mystai, Hagia Sophia / Sanctum of Kronos, Two Esoteric Tarots (with Christophe Poncet), and The Power of the Healing Field, Peter Mark Adams is known for providing landmark studies in the field of the Esoteric Tradition. His Mysteries of Mithras combines cutting-edge scholarship with first-hand accounts of initiation and contemporary ethnographies of ritual performance, providing an unparalleled glimpse into Mithraism that redefines our understanding of Western Europe’s most enigmatic mystery cult.

Approaching the material from an emic (insider’s) perspective, the author examines the cult’s hierarchical grade structure, ceremonial roles, and ritual mechanics—revealing how initiates invoked the serpent power and encountered the awe-inspiring epiphany of Saturn-Kronos, the sovereign time-deity.

Through a richly interdisciplinary lens, drawing on Orphic metaphysics, Greco-Roman ritual theory, art history, and comparative ethnographies of initiation, Adams vividly animates Mithraic iconography, frescoes, and reliefs as ritual grammar encoding the lived phenomenology of participation.

Richly illustrated and deeply insightful, this volume revives the Cult of Mithras as Western Europe’s preeminent mystery tradition, offering readers both scholarly rigor and spiritual resonance.

**This event is an online webinar. You will need the following link to register in order to attend: 
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WWQUugDhRU6MHO9mjSS-zg?fbclid=IwY2xjawKqkahleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFJYm9UZ1NKYUN0Sm5zRkxNAR7YnFFV2b3kJnTUTp16D-XNqT_ZNqDIrISAorCsdN_o9E8bNOgG7sE-UKtljg_aem_flGgVjZ7_Qm0Te5spNrCbA#/registration
Join us for a special webinar with professor, writer and host of The New Mithraeum podcast Andreu Abuín, interviewing acclaimed esoteric scholar Peter Mark Adams on his ground breaking latest book, Ritual and Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras.

Having previously authored The Game of Saturn, Mystai, Hagia Sophia / Sanctum of Kronos, Two Esoteric Tarots (with Christophe Poncet), and The Power of the Healing Field, Peter Mark Adams is known for providing landmark studies in the field of the Esoteric Tradition. His Mysteries of Mithras combines cutting-edge scholarship with first-hand accounts of initiation and contemporary ethnographies of ritual performance, providing an unparalleled glimpse into Mithraism that redefines our understanding of Western Europe’s most enigmatic mystery cult.

Approaching the material from an emic (insider’s) perspective, the author examines the cult’s hierarchical grade structure, ceremonial roles, and ritual mechanics—revealing how initiates invoked the serpent power and encountered the awe-inspiring epiphany of Saturn-Kronos, the sovereign time-deity.

Through a richly interdisciplinary lens, drawing on Orphic metaphysics, Greco-Roman ritual theory, art history, and comparative ethnographies of initiation, Adams vividly animates Mithraic iconography, frescoes, and reliefs as ritual grammar encoding the lived phenomenology of participation.

Richly illustrated and deeply insightful, this volume revives the Cult of Mithras as Western Europe’s preeminent mystery tradition, offering readers both scholarly rigor and spiritual resonance.

**This event is an online webinar. You will need the following link to register in order to attend:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WWQUugDhRU6MHO9mjSS-zg?fbclid=IwY2xjawKqkahleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFJYm9UZ1NKYUN0Sm5zRkxNAR7YnFFV2b3kJnTUTp16D-XNqT_ZNqDIrISAorCsdN_o9E8bNOgG7sE-UKtljg_aem_flGgVjZ7_Qm0Te5spNrCbA#/registration
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May 2025
NewSocius

~ A modern syndexios ~

May 2025
Socius
Running the virtual Mithraeum in Roman region in opensim: https://opensimworld.com/hop/78477
Running the virtual Mithraeum in Roman region in opensim: https://opensimworld.com/hop/78477
 
May 2025
Scriptum
Bacchus at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games. Welcome back our old good god!
Bacchus at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games. Welcome back our old good god!
Satyr approves
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May 2025
Socius
IT freaky guy protected by Cautes and Cautopates (both at once), made in Barcelona, willing to engage with other guys or gals into the same trips.
IT freaky guy protected by Cautes and Cautopates (both at once), made in Barcelona, willing to engage with other guys or gals into the same trips.
 
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