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Hi, I’m a newly converted Greco-Roman pagan who’s deeply interested in Mithraism. Have no idea if I’m in the right place though!
Roman emperor at the age of 14, from 218 to his death in 222, Elagabalus was a main priest of the sun god Elagabal in Emesa.
Optio who erected several altars to Mithras in the Mithraeum of Sárkeszi.
This is one of the altars erected by Septimius Valentinus, in this case, to the transitus of Mithras.
In this relief found in the Sárkeszi Mithraeum, Cautes and Cautopates hold an Amazon shield.
The Sárkeszi mithraeum is unusual for its large dimensions and its semicircular eastern wall.
Pater patrorum of equestrian rank, he was a prominent figure in the Mithraic sphere in Rome.
Community dedicated to the study, disclosure and reenactment of the Mysteries of Mithras since 2004.
Garlic merchant, probably from Lusitania, who dedicated an altar to Cautes in Tarraconensis.
The relief of Mithras killing the bull, found near Zvornik in Bosnia and Herzegovina, features some variations on the usual scene.
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.
