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Peter Mark Adams

Professional author with a special interest in Greco-Roman ritual and sacred landscapes, art and philosophy.

peter.mark.adams
Istanbul, Turkey
Joined July 2021
 
 
Feb 2024
NewVideo

Peter Mark Adams, Mithras and the Renaissance

For the launch of our YouTube channel, we chat with the author, poet, essayist and friend Peter Mark Adams about the Sola-Busca Tarot, a Renaissance masterpiece, uncovering ties to the Mithras cult.

 
Nov 2022
NewLiber

Two esoteric tarots

Two Esoteric Tarots is the record of a fascinating conversation between Peter Mark Adams and Christophe Poncet, convened and with a foreword by César Pedreros. They compare their journeys of discovery into two wildly contrasting tarot decks, the dark rit…

 
Sep 2021
NewNotitia

Dancing out the Mysteries of Dionysos

Peter Mark Adams: ‘The initiation was a frightening experience that caused some people to panic as a flood of otherworldly entities swept through the ritual space.’.

 
Jul 2021
NewSocius

Professional author with a special interest in Greco-Roman ritual and sacred landscapes, art and philosophy.

 
Nov 2018
NewLiber

Mystai. Dancing out the Mysteries of Dionysos

The Dionysian themed frescos of Pompeii’s Villa of the Mysteries constitute the single most important theurgical narrative to have survived in the Western esoteric tradition. No other practitioner account of the ritual process for conducting a mystery r…

 
Nov 2016
NewLiber

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…