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Mithra et le Mithriacisme

Robert Turcan

Dans le monde gréco-romain, Mithra n'est pas un dieu parmi les autres, ni comme les autres. Venu d'ailleurs avec un lointain héritage indo-européen, il n'est pas lié à tel ou tel sanctuaire topique. On l'honore partout où un groupe de fidèles renouvelle en son nom le repas jadis partagé avec…

 
 

Books on Mithras

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

The Conference of the Birds

The Conference of the Birds

Farid ud-Din Attar

Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism - an esoteric system concerned with …

 
Les Contes du labyrinthe

Les Contes du labyrinthe

Alain Daniélou

Cinq contes, situés dans la région du Latium, au sud de Rome, sont réunis sous ce titre. Figure tutélaire de l’œuvre de Daniélou, le labyrinthe est également le nom du lieu-dit où il élut domicile à son retour en Occident. La dominante auto…

 
Phallic Miscellanies. Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India

Phallic Miscellanies. Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India

Anónimo

India, beyond all other countries on the face of the earth, is pre-eminently the home of the worship of the Phallus—the Linga puja; it has been so for ages and remains so still. This adoration is said to one of the chief, if not the leading dogma of the…

 
The Path of Enlightenment in the Mithraic Mysteries

The Path of Enlightenment in the Mithraic Mysteries

Julius Evola

The first and the third of the following essays written by Julius Evola are dedicated to the mysteries of Mithras, while the second essay concerns itself with the Roman Emperor, Julian. The first essay, published in the periodical Ultra (1926), describes …

Living and Working with the Gods. Studies of evidence for private religion and its material environment in the city of Ostia (100 - 500 AD)

Living and Working with the Gods. Studies of evidence for private religion and its material environment in the city of Ostia (100 - 500 AD)

Jan Theo Bakker

This study deals with hitherto unpublished evidence of private religious practice, found in the ruins of Ostia. The selected environment consists of domus, rented apartments, workshops, depots, shops, bars, markets, hotels, and also all mithraea and the c…

 
The Excavations in the Mithraeum of the Church of Santa Prisca in Rome

The Excavations in the Mithraeum of the Church of Santa Prisca in Rome

Carel Claudius van Essen

This shrine may be the most interesting Mithraeum in the world, for it displays various remarkable features that are not to be found in any other speleum. The peculiar cult-niche with its rich stucco decoration is unique, the precious paintings on the sid…

Cultores Mithrae. Die Anhangerschaft Des Mithras-Kultes

Cultores Mithrae. Die Anhangerschaft Des Mithras-Kultes

Manfred Clauss

Mithras is one of many in the pantheon of ancient gods, related to many, identical to many. The cult of Mithras offered one of many possibilities for finding community, cultic experience or salvation. In order to place the results of this study in their p…

 
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