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Discours de Julien l'Empereur

Flavius Claudius Juliaus

Nommé Julien l'Apostat par la tradition chrétienne, Julien le philosophe vécut au IVème siècle de notre ère. Il fut d'abord César des Gaules (355-361) et fit de Lutèce sa capitale, puis empereur romain. Il doit son surnom à sa tentative de restaurer la religion païenne dans l’empire roma…

 
 

Books on Mithras

A TNM selection of books on Mithras, its cult, and related subjects.

Mithras platonicus. Recherches sur l'hellénisation philosophique de Mithra

Mithras platonicus. Recherches sur l'hellénisation philosophique de Mithra

Robert Turcan

Robert Turcan, Mithras Platonicus. Recherches sur l'hellénisation philosophique de Mithra. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1975. 24 x 15,5, xι + 145 p., 5 pi. d'illustr. h. t., 2 index (Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain, t. 47)…

 
En los oscuros lugares del saber

En los oscuros lugares del saber

Peter Kingsley

El poema de Parménides del siglo V a. C. es, además de uno de los pilares de la cultura occidental, un texto enigmático que ha desafiado a todos sus intérpretes durante más de dos mil quinientos años. A partir de un profundo conocimiento de la filol…

 
 
On Mithraism and Freemasonry

On Mithraism and Freemasonry

J. R. Russell

The fraternal order that focussed on the worship of the ancient Iranian god Mithra was probably formed in Iran, Armenia, and Pontus (the southern coastal region of the Black Sea in eastern Anatolia, present-day Turkey). Travelers and colonists from these …

Le Phallus

Le Phallus

Alain Daniélou

It is only when the penis (upastha) stands up straight, that it emits semen, the source of life. It is then called the phallus (lingam) and has been considered, since earliest prehistory the image of the creative principle, a symbol of the process by whic…

 
Mushrooms, Myth & Mithras. The Drug Cult That Civilized Europe

Mushrooms, Myth & Mithras. The Drug Cult That Civilized Europe

Carl A. P. Ruck

Anthropological evidence has long suggested that psychedelic plants have played important roles in indigenous communities for thousands of years, but most scholarship does not address their larger sphere of influence on western culture. In their ground…

 
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Monographs on monuments

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