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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 2024
Socius
Awareness of Half blood
The Kami path and Mithras
As paths to God
Awareness of Half blood
The Kami path and Mithras
As paths to God
Aug 2024
NewSocius
rédacteur sur wikipedia français
Aug 2024
NewMonumentum

Mitreo d’Aosta

The remains of the Mithraeum of Aosta, also known as the Mitreo di Augusta Praetoria, were discovered in 1953 in insula 59, in a commercial district of the ancient city.
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Aug 2024
NewSocius
My name mithradat - One of Iran’s old nobles - architect - project manager - financial strategist
My name mithradat - One of Iran’s old nobles - architect - project manager - financial strategist
Aug 2024
NewSocius
Prof. of French Literature, Text and Image
Aug 2024
NewVideo

The Cult of Mithras, Freemasonry, and Initiatic Orders

Conference by Freemason Chris Ruli on the parallels between the cult of Mithras, Freemasonry and other initiatic orders.
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Aug 2024
NewLiber

The Seventh Sinner

Jean Suttman’s study trip in Rome turns nightmarish when she discovers a murdered student in the Temple of Mithra and realizes someone is out to harm her.
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Jul 2024
NewScriptum
Just discovered this very cool ensemble of experimental archaeology from Granada, Spain. Beautiful music and dance from the Hispanic Florentia. Enjoy!
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Jul 2024
NewScriptum
Photos from the rite at the Mithraeum of Sutri carried out by Pietas - Comunita Gentile and Gruppo Storico Romano.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/d7eaoLbUpnCFZdtf
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Jul 2024
NewSocius
private individual with personal studies.
 
Jul 2024
Scriptum
The twelve labors or Hercules 💪 
Cool piece of art via ΑΤΕΧΝΟΣ 
via https://x.com/CastellsOnofre
The twelve labors or Hercules 💪
Cool piece of art via ΑΤΕΧΝΟΣ
via https://x.com/CastellsOnofre
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Jul 2024
NewScriptum
europeana is getting bigger all the time, and already has got a great collection of mithraic monuments (not as many as the new mithraeum, but some good ones!). Have a look: https://www.europeana.eu/search?query=mithras
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Jul 2024
NewScriptum
We’ve put together a new table of cross-references of monuments to Mithras in several databases, including Vermaseren’s Corpus, Cumont’s Textes, CIL, l’Année épigraphique, Clauss / Slaby and Heldeiberg’s epigraphic databases, and more.

You can find all the references to multiple databases on one page here: https://www.mithraeum.eu/mapping.

We’re constantly adding new references to The New Mithraeum, so feel free to check it out to see what’s new!
We’ve put together a new table of cross-references of monuments to Mithras in several databases, including Vermaseren’s Corpus, Cumont’s Textes, CIL, l’Année épigraphique, Clauss / Slaby and Heldeiberg’s epigraphic databases, and more.

You can find all the references to multiple databases on one page here: Table of references for mithraic artefacts.

We’re constantly adding new references to The New Mithraeum, so feel free to check it out to see what’s new!
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Jul 2024
Scriptum
Hello everybody. Does anyone know the opening hours of San Clemente in Rome? I went last week with a friend and it was closed
Strange! I am not in Rome, but I would expect it to be open every day, even more in the summer! Anyhow, here are their opening hours: https://turismoroma.it/es/node/43919
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Jul 2024
Scriptum
It is indeed surprising to see Mithras represented in the Middle Ages, as we tend to assume that paganism was forgotten at an early date. Well, some representations of Mithras killing the bull in key locations in Europe prove the opposite. To what extent did medieval masons know about the cult of Mithras?

Here are the best known examples:

* https://www.mithraeum.eu/monument/764
* https://www.mithraeum.eu/monument/763
* https://www.mithraeum.eu/monument/762
It is indeed surprising to see Mithras represented in the Middle Ages, as we tend to assume that paganism was forgotten at an early date. Well, some representations of Mithras killing the bull in key locations in Europe prove the opposite. To what extent did medieval masons know about the cult of Mithras?

Here are the best known examples:

Update! Found a new post-classical monument, this one from the French Renaissance: Saul depicted as Mithras Tauroctonos.

And from now on, all post-classical monuments will be available here: https://www.mithraeum.eu/quaere.php?tag=postclassical
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Jul 2024
Syndexios

Gaius Iulius

For the health of this man, a small altar was dedicated to the god Invictus in the Emerita Augusta.
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Jul 2024
Syndexios

Alcimus

Slave and vilicus in the household of Tiberius Claudius Livianus, linked to the earliest known Mithraic tauroctony.
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Jul 2024
NewScriptum
Summary of Mithraic philosophy on a drawing of an ornate temple.

It is possible to draw the organisation of a Mithraeum, and also his philosophical consequences. For example, the two columns were probably very different: the south column was 'human'. the winter column. Reincarnated souls appeared there, And further, pure and philosophical souls left through the gate of Capricorn. The northern column was summer time. Pure souls entered the world of the gods, and imperfect souls were rejected by the Moon and passed through the door of Cancer to be reincarnated (metempsychosis), after a six-month journey that became darker and darker.
Summary of Mithraic philosophy on a drawing of an ornate temple.

It is possible to draw the organisation of a Mithraeum, and also his philosophical consequences. For example, the two columns were probably very different: the south column was 'human'. the winter column. Reincarnated souls appeared there, And further, pure and philosophical souls left through the gate of Capricorn. The northern column was summer time. Pure souls entered the world of the gods, and imperfect souls were rejected by the Moon and passed through the door of Cancer to be reincarnated (metempsychosis), after a six-month journey that became darker and darker.
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Jul 2024
NewLiber

Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance

Professor Wind's acclaimed work explores pagan mysticism and neoplatonic philosophy in Renaissance art, offering insightful analyses of masterpieces by Botticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian.
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Jul 2024
Syndexios

Sextus Vervicius Eutyches

Textile merchant from Augusta Treverorum and Pater of his community, he left testimony of his cult to Mithras in the 3rd century.
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