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A chara,
Any chance of an English translation of El Culto de Mitra en Hispania? If all else fails I’ll work my way slowly through it with my diccionario. Meanwhile, I’m struck by some similarities between the Mithraic Mysteries and Irish Druidism, particularly the tairbhfeis roughly translated as the "bull feast" or "bull sleep". The slaughter of a bull was involved. Rites of kingship applied but also when in search of visions, the Druid/Druidess would wrap themselves in a bull hide and sleep within the dark caves of the ancient mounds (built pre Druidic religion). Many of the mounds were constructed to face the sun. The mound at Brugh na Boinne has a ’roof box’ over the entrance which allows for the sun’s rays of the winter solstice to strike the central chamber. O.R.
L'école mithriaque représente, à nos yeux, une source riche et féconde d'enseignements relatifs à la conduite de la vie. Il nous a semblé aussi que la psychothérapie actuelle se trouverait enrichie par l'étude des données des "psychodrames" antiq…
writer, screenwriter, creative in XR (Extended Reality) immersive technology & media.
Savez vous si du mobilier a été découvert dans la salle annexe sud ou il ne restait rien ?
Savez vous si des salles annexes ont été découvertes dans ce mithraeum, ainsi que du mobilier provenant de ces salles annexes ?
Etudiant en première année de master à l’Université de Bourgogne. Je travail sur un mémoire sur le petit mobilier des salles annexes du mithraeum des Bolards.
I enjoy learning about the ancient :)
شب چله یا شب یلدا طولانی شب سال رازی را در خود پنهان داشته . در فرهنگ و تاریخ ایران باستان ، این شب تولد ایزد مهر و خورشید است چرا که از صبح روز اول دی روزها طولانی تر شده و روشنایی بر تاریکی پیروز میشود.
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
* Tauroctony of Santo Domingo de Silos
* Tauroctony of Aula Gotica.
On one of the capitals of the cathedral of Santa Maria Nuova in Monreale, Sicily, an unusual turbaned bull-slaying Mithras has been recorded.
Mithras slaying the bull appears as the sign of Capricorn in a zodiacal sequence on the Pórtico del Cordero of the Abbey de Santo Domingo de Silos, Burgos, Spain.
Intervention de Nicolas Amoroso, commissaire de l’exposition Le Mystère de Mithra.
What appears to be a representation of Mithras killing the bull appears in the 12th century frescoes of the Basilica dei Santi Quattro Coronati in Rome.
Teachings of Hamed Khorram Shahgol, researcher of philosophy and ancient sciences.
