Daily Gazette
Acta diurna is our Mithraic social stream for keeping up to date with what is happening in The New Mithraeum.
Quand les dieux voyagent. Cultes et mythes en mouvement dans l'espace méditerranéen antique
Ce livre présente les religions de la Méditerranée ancienne – grecque, romaine, phénicienne et punique, hébraïque et juive, mésopotamienne, égyptienne – en mouvement. Au fur et à mesure de ces histoires de dieux en voyage, les principaux enje…
Corbulo
Danube region can be traced back to the legions that fought under his command in Armenia.
Dear Collegue: May I consult You in order to a potsherd on which the word 'leonis' has been graved. It was found without archaeological context in the area of the civilian settlement nearby the fort of Walldürn on the Upper German Limes. I would like to put it into relationship with the 'leo' grade, although definitively this cannot be verified. Could You be so kind to tell me if there are similar graffii on potsherds anywhere in the Roman World. Thank You very much. Sincerely Yours Joachim Neumaier
Mithraeum of Tienen
The temple contained hundreds of ceramic vessels and animal bones, which may indicated that a grand Mithraic feast was celebrated before its closing.
One hypothesis is that the mythology of the Roman secret society of Mithras was transformed into an esoteric society, still secret, using the Bible as a screen. Let's take an example: a secret password for today's Masonic lodges is 'Shiboleth'. Shiboleth' means 'ears of wheat', i.e. abundance. Is not the tail of the bull of Mithras an ear of wheat? There are probably dozens of passwords like that. So Hebrew became a secret language for the followers of Mithras, who continued the cult after the fall of Rome, in sanctuaries located near springs or spas, at the same time as the cult of Hercules. Many of these places can be found in France, dating from the 7th to the 10th century. Crypts dating from the 8th and 9th centuries can also be found under Romanesque churches (the church at 'Saint Savin sur Gartempe' has a crypt dating from 800 AD, and a church built above it in 1030 AD). This crypt has a clear mithraeum shape. The modern Masonic rites were probably written in the 15th or 16th...
From Mithraism to Freemasonry. A history of ideas
Twelve centuries separate the decline of Roman Mithraism from the dawn of Freemasonry. Twelve centuries during which the mysteries of Mithras have remained more secret than ever.
Kastos (father)
Together with his son, with whom he shares his name, Kastos has dedicated several monuments in Rome to the glory of Zeus Helios Mithras.
Kastos (son)
Together with his father, Kastos dedicated several monuments in Rome to the glory of Zeus Helios Mithras.
Cautes of the mitreo di Santa Prisca
The marble statue of Cautes, found in the Mithraeum of Santa Prisca, was originally a Mercury.
Lucius Petreius Victor
Garlic merchant, probably from Lusitania, who dedicated an altar to Cautes in Tarraconensis.
Euthices
Freedman, he offered a monument to Mithras for the well-being of his two former masters in Apulum.
Mitreo della domus del capitello
Archaeologists discovered the 20th temple dedicated to Mithras in Ostia during the restoration of the domus del Capitello di stucco in 2022.
University Student and active member of the CAF living in the Greater Toronto area.
Richard Gordon suggests the object on the Miles step is a bull’s hindquarter. “In the light of the sacrificial scene on the altar of Flavius Aper (Poetovio), the interpretation as a bull’s hind-quarter rather than shoulder is to be preferred. The scene at Ostia is perfectly in keeping with other evidence suggest- ing that (junior) Mithraic grades fulfilled specific manual tasks within the cult, in the case of Miles, butchery of sacrificial animals.” See: Gordon, R. 2013c. “The Miles-frame in the Mitreo di Felicissimo and the practicalities of sacrifice.” Religio: Revue Pro Religionistiku 21, no.1: 33–38.
Mitreo di Felicissimo
The Mithraeum Felicissimus has a floor mosaic depicting the seven mithraic grades.
A.B. Candidate in Departments of History and Classics at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
The Mithraic Prophecy
Why did the Romans worship a Persian god? This book presents a new reading of the Mithraic iconography taking into account that the cult had a prophecy.
Mithras – Miθra – Mitra
Der römische Gott Mithras aus der Perspektive der vergleichenden Religionsgeschichte.
