Soma. Divine Mushroom of Immortality
R. Gordon Wàsson. — Soma, Divine Mushroom of Immortality, New York, Harcourt, Brace and World; Inc., 1968, Ethno-mycological studies, n° 1, xiv + 382 p., XXIII pl. hors texte en couleurs, 10 fig., 4 cartes. M. Wasson, qui s'est déjà fait connaître par d'intéressants travaux d'ethno-myco…
Books on Mithras
A TNM selection of books on Mithras, its cult, and related subjects.
Études Mithriaques. Actes du 2e Congrès International, Téhéran, du 1er au 8 septembre 1975
Actes du 2e Congrès International, Téhéran, du 1er au 8 septembre 1975. (Actes du Congrès, 4). Éditions Brill, collection. Acta Iranica. TABLE DES MATIERES
- Closca L. BALUTA Le Mithriacisme dans l'epigraphie de la Dacie
- Per BESKOW The Routes
The Poison King. The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy
Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart’s first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited bloody, romantic tales of his victories, defeats, intrigues…
El sentido de la unidad. La tradición sufí en la arquitectura persa
El sentido de la unidad, del arquitecto Nader Ardalan y de la experta en mundo islámico y sufismo Laleh Bakhtiar, es el primer estudio sobre la arquitectura del Islam en el contexto persa. A lo largo de la historia musulmana, Persia ha sido uno de los ce…
Living and Working with the Gods. Studies of evidence for private religion and its material environment in the city of Ostia (100 - 500 AD)
This study deals with hitherto unpublished evidence of private religious practice, found in the ruins of Ostia.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 Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries. Cosmology & Salvation in the Ancient World
In the centuries following the conquests of Alexander the Great the dramatic unification of the Mediterranean world created exceptionally fertile soil for the growth of new religions. Christianity, for example, was one of the innovative religious movement…
The Mithras Conspiracy
Followers of a revived version of Mithraism in contemporary Italy threaten to overthrow the government and destroy the Vatican. Rome is in chaos. Earthquakes shake the city. The Pope is in a coma. And a Vatican scholar has been found dead in the Tiber…
Les Métamorphoses ou l'âne d'or
Jubilant dans le baroque aux confins de l'érotisme, du fantastique et de la mort, Les Métamorphoses d’Apulée (IIe siècle), seul roman latin dont nous possédions le texte intégral, racontent à la première personne les tribulations d’un naïf tr…
On Mithraism and Freemasonry
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 …
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