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First African emperor of Rome (193 – 211), born in Leptis Magna, now Al-Khums in Libya.
Just discovered this very cool ensemble of experimental archaeology from Granada, Spain. Beautiful music and dance from the Hispanic Florentia. Enjoy!
For more information, see Beck, R 1988, Planetary Gods and Planetary Orders in the Mysteries of Mithras, pp. 15-34.
Photos from the rite at the Mithraeum of Sutri carried out by Pietas - Comunita Gentile and Gruppo Storico Romano.
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Bacchus at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games. Welcome back our old good god!
Latin teacher and illustrator
A beautiful piece of art, which indeed seems to be quite inspired by the mithraic Aion. Thank you for sharing this
The twelve labors or Hercules 💪
Cool piece of art via ΑΤΕΧΝΟΣ
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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
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!
Hello everybody. Does anyone know the opening hours of San Clemente in Rome? I went last week with a friend and it was closed
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:
* Tauroctony of Monreale
* Tauroctony of Santo Domingo de Silos
* Tauroctony of Aula Gotica
For the health of this man, a small altar was dedicated to the god Invictus in the Emerita Augusta.
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.
Salvete fratres,
I created a fresh new Discord server. Here is the invitation which is valid until 21 July 2024. If you are interested in joining, read the regulations carefully first. If the link doesn’t work DM on Discord at lupuslux.
Valete.
https://discord.gg/aU2WefC8
Textile merchant from Augusta Treverorum and Pater of his community, he left testimony of his cult to Mithras in the 3rd century.
