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Acta diurna is our Mithraic social stream for keeping up to date with what is happening in The New Mithraeum.

 
 
December 2023
NewLiber

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…

 
December 2023
Syndexios

Corbulo

Danube region can be traced back to the legions that fought under his command in Armenia.

January 2011
NewComentum

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

 
Dear Joachim: To my knowledge, perhaps not the dative lionis, but the word leo is often found in the Mithraic context, as you may know. If this is of interest to you, I think the best way to find it in this database is to look for people who have been identified as leo because of an inscription. Here is the link: https://www.mithraeum.eu/persons.php?gra=4. Hope it helps!
In Monumentum
 

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.

 
October 2023
Comentum

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...

 
this capital from the cloister of the abbey of Monreal in sicily dates from the 12th century and is very disturbing. It’s exactly Mithras (upside down). This means that, contrary to the idea we have of the past, the cult of Mithras was known and understood in the 12th century. Probably less violently than we do today. All this had to be known and respected.
 
It makes perfect sense. My hesitation would lie in the time gap that separates Mithraism and Freemasonry. I admit that certain knowledge has been passed down through the centuries in oral form from all sorts of mystical traditions that spread from the Middle Ages to modern times, including the Cathars, the Bogomiles, even the Knights Templar if you like, but I think there is a missing piece and that is perhaps the greatest Mithraic scholar of all time, Monsieur Franz Cumont. Even if he wasn't a Freemason, he was a pretty good friend of some notorious ones at the time he was rediscovering the Mysteries. Among them was Eugène Goblet d'Alviella, Grand Maître du Grand Orient de Belgique from 1884 to 1886 and Souverain Grand Commandeur du Suprême Conseil in 1900.
In Notitia
 

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.

 
December 2023
Scriptum

Thinking of forming a weekly group for those in the Anglosphere(USA, Canada, UK, Australia and NZ) to have a webcam call, discuss all things related to Mithras and form friends sharing a niche interest:)

 
Excellent idea, Matthew. Count on us!
 
December 2023
Syndexios

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.

 
December 2023
Syndexios

Kastos (son)

Together with his father, Kastos dedicated several monuments in Rome to the glory of Zeus Helios Mithras.

 
December 2023
NewMonumentum

Cautes of the mitreo di Santa Prisca

The marble statue of Cautes, found in the Mithraeum of Santa Prisca, was originally a Mercury.

 
December 2023
Syndexios

Lucius Petreius Victor

Garlic merchant, probably from Lusitania, who dedicated an altar to Cautes in Tarraconensis.

 
December 2023
NewSocius

TV senior producer Presenter

 
December 2023
Syndexios

Euthices

Freedman, he offered a monument to Mithras for the well-being of his two former masters in Apulum.

 
December 2023
NewMonumentum

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.

 
December 2023
NewSocius

Avid Archaeologist

 
November 2023
NewSocius

University Student and active member of the CAF living in the Greater Toronto area.

 
November 2023
Syndexios

Secundinus

Imperial slave and head of the customs statio of Esca in Noricum.

 
November 2023
NewComentum

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.

In Monumentum
 

Mitreo di Felicissimo

The Mithraeum Felicissimus has a floor mosaic depicting the seven mithraic grades.

 
November 2023
NewSocius

Born in Nijmegen (Ulpia Noviomagus), now retired in Sintra, Portugal.

 
November 2023
NewSocius

A.B. Candidate in Departments of History and Classics at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)

 
November 2023
NewLiber

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.

 
November 2023
NewLiber

Mithras – Miθra – Mitra

Der römische Gott Mithras aus der Perspektive der vergleichenden Religionsgeschichte.