The Mystery of Mithras. Exploring the heart of a Roman cult
The exhibition The Mystery of Mithras: Exploring the Heart of a Roman Cult is being presented at the Musée royal de Mariemont from 20 November 2021 to 17 April 2022, then at the Musée Saint-Raymond de Toulouse from 14 May 2022 to 30 October 2022, and lastly at the Archäologisches Museum Fra
Books on Mithras
A TNM selection of books on Mithras, its cult, and related subjects.
Mithra ve Mithraizm. Düalist Pagan Sembolizmi Işığında
Mithraizm, ülkemizde her ne kadar son yıllarda ilgi gösterilen antik bir gizem topluluğu olsa da Batı'da, özellikle son 100 yıldır hem akademik hem de popüler kültür anlamında yüzlerce esere konu olmuştur. Bu çalışmalar, temel olarak topl…
The Game of Saturn. Decoding the Sola-Busca Tarocchi
The Game of Saturn is the first full length, scholarly study of the enigmatic Renaissance masterwork known as the Sola-Busca tarot. It reveals the existence of a pagan liturgical and ritual tradition active amongst members of the Renaissance elite and enc…
The Phallic Worship. A History of Sex and Sex Rites in relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day
In The Phallic Worship, George Ryley Scott explores the significant role that male sexual organs, practices, and rites have played in various traditions throughout history and into the present day. His book presents a comprehensive study of phallic worshi…
The Conference of the Birds
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 …
In the dark places of wisdom
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 practic…
Romanising Oriental Gods Myth Salvation and Ethics in the Cults of Cybele Isis and Mithras
The traditional grand narrative correlating the decline of Graeco-Roman religion with the rise of Christianity has been under pressure for three decades. This book argues that the alternative accounts now emerging significantly underestimate the role of t…
Les Cultes à mystères dans l'antiquité
Le livre de Walter Burkert permet de comprendre mieux ce que représentaient pour les hommes et les femmes de l’Antiquité les initiations aux mystères: mystères d'Eleusis, mystères dionysiaques, mystères de la Grande Mère, mystères d'Isis, mystè…
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