The Roman Cult of Mithras. The God and His Mysteries
The Mithras cult first became evident in Rome towards the end of the first century AD. During the next two centuries, it spread to the frontiers of the Western empire. Energetically suppressed by the early Christians, who frequently constructed their churches over the caves in which Mithraic rituals
Books on Mithras
A TNM selection of books on Mithras, its cult, and related subjects.
Guerriers d'Iran. Traductions annotées des textes avestiques du culte zoroastrien rendu aux dieux Tištriya, Miθra et Vṛθragna
Le panthéon de l'Iran ancien, sans doute aussi riche que celui des Grecs, reste d'une approche nettement plus ardue : les divinités y sont souvent abstraites ou difficiles à définir, et les textes qui nous en parlent sont généralement chaotiques et …
Isis et Osiris
The following is the opinion of the great majority of learned men. By some it is maintained that there are two gods, rivals as it were, authors the one of good and the other of evil. Others confine the name of god to the good power, the other they term de…
Los templos del dios Mitra en el Imperio romano
El objetivo principal ha sido la recopilación de sus pruebas materiales, tanto en lo que se refiere a inscripciones como en lo tocante a los templos de los que quedan o quedaron evidencias. Se ha intentado dar una imagen lo más completa posible de la es…
The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity. Development, Decline and Demise ca. A.D. 270-430
In The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity David Walsh explores how the cult of Mithras developed across the 3rd and 4th centuries A.D. and why by the early 5th century the cult had completely disappeared. Contrary to the traditional narrative that the cult…
Mithraïsme et émancipation. Anthropologie sociale et culturelle des mouvements populaires en Iran : au VIIIe, IXe et du XIVe au début du XVIe siècle
Jusqu'à présent, le mithraïsme était considéré comme un culte appartenant à un passé lointain n'ayant guère laissé de traces. L'auteur met en lumière la continuité du mithraïsme à l'époque islamique, son rôle primordial dans l'animation et…
The Path of Enlightenment in the Mithraic Mysteries
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 …
Sol: Image and Meaning of the Sun in Roman Art and Religion
With this analysis of Sol images, Steven E. Hijmans paints a new picture of the solar cult in ancient Rome. The paucity of literary evidence led Hijmans to prioritize visual sources, and he opens this study with a thorough discussion of the theoretical an…
Arcanum
