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Au milieu des échos silencieux du Paris invincible Lutèce, une confrérie de quêteurs se plonge dans sagesse mithriaque. Tradition, secret et complicité s'entremêlent dans un voyage clandestin qui attend ceux qui écoutent la symphonie souterraine du Paris éternel.
This marble tablet found at Portus Ostiae mentions a pater, a lion donor and a series of male names, probably from a Mithraic community.
Pater and priest of the Fagan Mithtraeum with several monuments under his name.
This unusual statue in Mithraic iconography of a mother nursing a child was found in the vestibule of the Mithraeum of Dieburg.
He devoted an altar to the Mother Goddesses for Respectus, found at the Mithraeum of Friedberg.
This fragmented altar of a certain Caius Iulius Crescens, found in the Mithraeum of Friedberg, bears an inscription to the Mother Goddesses.
Welcome to Nymphaeum, a group dedicated to the nymphi, satyrs, silenus, faunos and all sorts of libidinous creatures.
This simple relief of Mithras killing the bull without his companions Cautes and Cautopates was found in the so-called Mithraeum of the Esquilino, Rome.
Hello Gabriel,
the article you present on the relationship between the religion of the unconquered sun and 18th-century English Masonry notes the similarity of the (supposed) rituals. It is possible to draw attention to a few visual aspects:
- the followers face each other
- initiation was secret
- there are several levels of progression in the ritual
- temples are small and often private
- the temples are oriented according to the sun, and the place of the Pater (with his solar crown) is theoretically in the east (rising sun).
- In 1976, Richard Gordon showed that each Mithraic grade corresponded to a star, in particular the sun and the moon, and had a specific place in the lodge. Similarly, Masonry has retained references to the moon and the sun, and a specific place for each officer.
- Mithraism works according to the path of the souls in the rotating wheel of the Zodiac. Particularly the cycle of resurrection, Masons also venerate the 'Eternal East'. The Orthodox make....
Dux of Pannonia Prima et Noricum Ripense, he built a mithraeum in Poetovio.
This inscription belongs to the 4th mithraeum found in the modern town of Ptuj.
This altar dedicated to the Invincible Sol Mithra was found in 1878 in a cemetery in Alba Iulia.
This monument bears an inscription by a certain Lucius Aelius Hylas, in which he associates Sol Invictus with Jupiter.
Freedman and administrator of the country estate of a certain Flavius Macedo in Moesia.
This limestone relief of Mithras killing the bull bears an inscription by a certain Flavius Horimos, consecrated in a 'secret forest' in Moesia.
The son of an eponymous person, he consecrated an altar to Helios Mithras in Kreta, Moesia inferior.
Straton, son of Straton, consecrated an altar to Helios Mithras in Kreta, Moesia inferior.
An imperial slave and customs officer in Illyria, he built a temple to Mithras in Moesia.
