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In the dark places of wisdom

Peter Kingsley

A set of ancient inscriptions on marble found forty years ago in southern Italy, recording details so bewildering that scholars have kept silent about them. Strange evidence about a tradition of people who were mystics but who were so intensely practical that, two and a half thousand years ago, t

 
 

Books on Mithras

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

Méphistophélès et l'androgyne

Méphistophélès et l'androgyne

Mircea Eliade

On n'a pas encore clairement saisi que les "ouvertures" pratiquées par les découvertes des psychologues et des explorateurs de la pensée archaïque sont homologables à l'apparition massive des peuples non européens dans l'Histoire ; qu'il ne s'agit d…

 
 
La Sagesse des Chaldéens. Les Oracles chaldaïques

La Sagesse des Chaldéens. Les Oracles chaldaïques

Alain Verse

Originaires de Babylone, où naquit l'astrologie, les prêtres chaldéens étaient, dans le monde antique, craints et respectés pour leurs connaissances magiques et divinatoires. Leurs pouvoirs miraculeux et leur capacité de dialoguer directement avec l…

Los cultos egipcios en Hispania

Los cultos egipcios en Hispania

Jaime Alvar Ezquerra

Este estudio pone al día el conocimiento sobre un aspecto peculiar de la religiosidad romana en las provincias hispanas. Hasta ellas llegaron los cultos originalmente egipcios, transformados profundamente al integrarse en la cultura romana, y a ellos se …

 
Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia

Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia

autores varios

In Vergil’s Aeneid, the poet implies that those who have been initiated into mystery cults enjoy a blessed situation both in life and after death. This collection of essays brings new insight to the study of mystic cults in the ancient world, particular…

 
Mithraic art. A search for unpublished and unidentified monuments

Mithraic art. A search for unpublished and unidentified monuments

Al. N. Oikonomides

What is known by now as the special branch of "Mithraic Studies," grows in the international bibliography almost day by day. Thanks to the great works of F. Cumont and S. J. Vermaseren, we know the majority of the archaeological and art monuments which fo…

Roman Mithraism: the Evidence of the Small Finds

Roman Mithraism: the Evidence of the Small Finds

autores varios

Contents: Introduction Richard Gordon Moglichkeiten und Grenzen einerfunktionellen Topographie von Mithrasheiligtiimem Andreas Schatzmann The Mithraeum in Tienen (Belgium): smallfinds and what they can tell us Marleen Martens The Symbolic Me…

 
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