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…
A TNM selection of books on Mithras, its cult, and related subjects.
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…
La audaz hipótesis que propone este libro es que el mandala budista –quizá la manifestación más característica del pensamiento y el arte sagrado asiáticos– tiene un origen completamente distinto y distante de su entorno cultural: un origen que s…
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…
This volume collects the first results of the extensive and articulated research project dedicated to the Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus, the result of the Research Agreement stipulated in 2016 between the Capitoline Superintendence and the University of…
CAMPBELL (L.A.) Mithraic Iconography and Ideology Leyde E.J Brill 1968 444 p. 26 figures 45 planches Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans empire romain XI) Auteur d'une Typologie de Mithra taurochtone, L.A. Campbell a entrepris de déga…
Mithras: the Fellow in the Cap (1958) examined, with autodidactic zeal, the sun-worshipping cult, discerning the pagan roots of Christian rites with ‘disturbing conclusions about Christian orthodoxy’ (J. Wynne-Tyson, 354). (ODNB)
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…
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)…
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