For the launch of our YouTube channel, we chat with the author, poet, essayist and friend Peter Mark Adams about the Sola-Busca tarot, a Renaissance masterpiece, uncovering ties to the Mithras cult.
Andreu Abuín
Notitiae
Laurent Bricault has revolutionised Mithraic studies with the exhibition The Mystery of Mithras. Meet this professor in Toulouse for a fascinating look at the latest discoveries and what lies ahead.
It is well known that Mithras was born from a rock. However, less has been written about the father of the solar god, and especially about how he conceived him.
On the occasion of the discovery of a Mithraeum in Cabra, Spain, we talk to Jaime Alvar, a leading figure in the field of Mithraism. With him, we examine the testimonies known to date and the peculiarities of the cult of Mithras in Hispania.
Yolanda’s multimedia dissertation focuses on the cognitive mechanisms that motivate Mithras worshippers. Her work includes a podcast entitled Conversations about Mithras.
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A place of worship for the Roman god of light Mithras was discovered during archaeological excavations in Trier. This includes a larger relief.
Las excavaciones llevadas a cabo en el yacimiento arqueológico romano de la villa de Mithra, en Cabra (Córdoba), han deparado el excepcional hallazgo de un mitreo, o zona destinada al culto al dios Mithra, cuya estatua fue descubierta hace unos 70 años.
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On the occasion of the exhibition, the Royal Museum of Mariemont invites five experts from Europe to emulate the research on the cult of Mithras.
Despite the current political landscape of the US, we can look to antiquity to see that the red cap was actually once a symbol of citizenship and welcome to the foreigner.
Sarah E. Bond
La Domus de Mitreo y el Centro Arqueolóxico de San Roque muestran otra cara del viejo Lugo
Lorena García Calvo
The Niasar Cave, غار نیاسر, was a temple probably devoted to Iranian Mithras that dates back to the early Partian era.
The Mithraeum in the Chapel of the Three Naves was not linked to the cult of Mithras until recently because of a mosaic showing a pig, in the belief that it was an animal unfit for consumption in a temple of Eastern origin.
Workman digging in a field near Dormagen found a vault. Against one of the walls were found two monuments related to Mithras.
Mithras became the main deity worshipped in the sanctuary of Meter in Kapikaya, Turkey, in Roman times, at least until the fourth century.
Altars of Dura Europos
Marble slab with inscription from Mitreo Barberini
Tauroctony on display in Princeton
Mithras pantocrator of the Villa Altieri
Bronze medallion from Gordian III with tauroctony
Naked figure from Mérida
Mithras rock-birth fresco of Hawarte
Fragmented tauroctony of Dormagen
Altar of Chrestion from Alba Iulia
Sententia
Savez vous si des salles annexes ont été découvertes dans ce mithraeum, ainsi que du mobilier pro…
The modern Masonic lodge is organised around the starry vault, but the officers are still arranged i…
It is magnificent. so better if you had a picture of the inside.
If you want definitive proof that Mithraism was different in every corner of the empire, just read t…
It makes perfect sense. My hesitation would lie in the time gap that separates Mithraism and Freemas…
Excelente artículo Hermano. La Masonería sigue siendo la gran heredera de los antiguos misterios. …
Dear Joachim: To my knowledge, perhaps not the dative lionis, but the word leo is often found in the…
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