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Rebecca Jelbert explores Michelangelo’s major works through the lens of hidden structures, symbolic systems, and esoteric traditions. It considers how themes associated with Mithras and other mystery cults may illuminate new interpretative possibilities within Renaissance art.

Dux of Pannonia Prima et Noricum Ripense, he built a mithraeum in Poetovio.

Lecture: “Mithras and the Sun God”

The Lobdengau Museum in Ladenburg is organising a public lecture on recent research into the cult image of Mithras from ancient Lopodunum (modern Ladenburg).

On Friday, 27 February 2026 at 7:00 pm, Dr Andreas Hensen will present “Mithras und der Sonnengott – Neues zum Kultbild aus Lopodunum/Ladenburg”, discussing new interpretations of the relationship between Mithras and the solar deity within the Roman religious landscape.

Venue
Domhof Hall (Domhof-Saal der Stadt Ladenburg)
Hauptstrasse 7–9
68526 Ladenburg, Germany

Admission is free.

Organiser: Lobdengau Museum Ladenburg

Vortrag "MITHRAS UND DER SONNENGOTT" | Stadt Ladenburg

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Mithras But Were Afraid to Ask.

Hominibus bagis bitam.

Tradition, symbolism, and radical critique.

Moeller interprets the square as a Mithraic construction encoding cosmological, numerical, and theological structures of Roman mystery religion, rather than an early Christian cryptogram.

Sandstone base from Vetera (Xanten), Germania Inferior, with a relief of Cautes in Oriental dress holding a long burning torch.

Maarten Vermaseren, qui a publié un corpus des inscriptions et des monuments de la religion mithriaque et un certain nombre d'études savantes sur le même sujet est certainement l'un des meilleurs spécialistes de la question.

The scholiast Lactantius Placidus comments on Statius’ passage identifying the Sun as Titan, Osiris, and Mithras, interpreting the Persian cave figure with the bull.

The Mithraeum of Regensburg represents the earliest of the nine Mithraic sanctuaries so far documented in Bavaria, Germany.

A study of Roman Mithraism that combines historical evidence with a symbol-centred interpretive approach, exploring Mithraic iconography, ritual experience, and the cult’s encounter with Christianity in the Late Empire.

A study that re-examines Roman Mithraism through epigraphic evidence and comparative analysis, exploring its links with Orphism, Platonism, and Iranian traditions, and presenting the cult of Mithras as a solar path of individual spiritual awakening between East and West.

A philosophical study of Iranian civilization that explores its spiritual foundations, including the legacy of Mithraic and Zoroastrian traditions, in order to reflect on Iran’s historical continuity and civilizational meaning.

Standing stone statuette of Cautopates, the downward-torch bearer, found at Bordeaux and kept in the city’s museum of antiquities (musée d’Aquitaine ?).

Francesco Massa examines how the concept of mysteria was transformed in the Roman Empire, as Christian authors from the mid-second century CE adopted the language of mysteries to articulate their own rituals and beliefs, reshaping understandings of both Christian and traditional cults.

The Mithraeum I in Stockstadt contained images of Mithras but also of Mercury, Hercules, Diana and Epona, among others.