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Nov 2024
NewVideo

Jesus or Mithras? by Dr. Reza Assasi - ACSF 2023 - New York City

Mithraic Influence on Early Christian Symbolism and Church – Architecture

 
Nov 2024
NewSocius

Open University student

 
Nov 2024
NewMonumentum

Tauroctony gemstone from Ploiești

This gemstone depicting Mithras killing the bull, preserved in the Ploiești Museum, originated from Prahova County or south of the Danube area.

 
Nov 2024
NewSocius

Attorney and writer of esoteric ancient history.

 
Oct 2024
Socius

Owner of the Facebook group: Roman Cult of Mithras: His Mysteries, Mithraea and Worship. Owner of the blog: Meals with Mithras

VERY into the subject.

 
what exactly does it mean to be an "owner of a facebook group".. I set up a facebook group on philosophy and peace 15 years ago and have made thousands of valuable posts . two days it was hacked, and the name changed.. and I havent got a clue how to reassert my rights to ownership? or get it back ? just saying..
 
Oct 2024
NewVideo

Celestial Ascent in Myth and Cult

The Dream of Scipio, the Orphic Gold Plates, and the Mithra Liturgy are compared revealing a common cosmovision predicated on the microcosm.

 
Oct 2024
Socius

Catholic mystic. Currently working on the New Areopagus project. See me at West Nashville Phoenix #131

 
Salve Jack, interesting project, indeed! I guess you already know Mushrooms, Myth & Mithras by Carl A. P. Ruck. If not, it’s worth a read. Actually I could recommend yuo a few other books on that topic if you’d like...
 
Oct 2024
NewMonumentum

Tauroctony of the Collezione Torlonia

This remarkable Greek marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was discovered in 1705 and remained in private collections until it was bought by the Louvre.

 
Oct 2024
Socius

Really interested in ancient religions, now retired I can give some time to this.

 
Can I ask you to visit the Ashmolean and take some pictures? ;-)
 
Sorry, am disabled so marching round a museum has to be a limited event. But if I am going will let you know.
 
Well, thanks for getting back to me. If there’s anything you’d like to know, feel free to poke me. Nice to meet you. =D
 
Oct 2024
Socius

I am a member of the Longthorpe Legion, a Living History group linked to our local museum that portrays the Romans in Britain, including a Temple to Mithras.

 
Salve Martin and welcome to The New Mithraeum! Feel free to share your website for anyone interested in your great project!
 
We don’t have a website but we do have a Facebook page as the Longthorpe Legion, so please have a look and see what we do.
 
Oct 2024
Comentum

I think it would be helpful to include visiting information... I’m under the impression that some of the Roman mithraea require prior registration. Getting such info from people who have been would seriously help.

 
It will indeed be helpful to have up-to-date information from anyone who has just visited a temple. However, since opening hours can change depending on demand, season, holidays, and other factors, I would also recommend always checking the official website or with operators before visiting.
 
By the way, Pattie, did you have a chance to visit any temples during your trip in Europe?
 
For the Capua Vetere Mithraeum, here’s the booking link https://cultura.gov.it/evento/mitreo-di-santa-maria-capua-vetere-modalita-di-accesso-e-prenotazione. Looks like no fixed hours though, open by booking at +39 338 6353806.
 
Oct 2024
Socius

Catholic mystic. Currently working on the New Areopagus project. See me at West Nashville Phoenix #131

 
Salve Jack, interesting project, indeed! I guess you already know Mushrooms, Myth & Mithras by Carl A. P. Ruck. If not, it’s worth a read. Actually I could recommend yuo a few other books on that topic if you’d like...
 
Oct 2024
NewSocius

Just a curious student of history

 
Oct 2024
Comentum

The most detailed publication on this monument seems to be Diamandis Triandaphyllos. „Nouveau relief rupestre de Mithra Tauroctone dans la région de Xanthi“, in: Pulpudeva. Semaines philippopolitaines de l’histoire et de la culture Thrace, (Supplementum 6), Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press 2008, pp. 159‒171. There is information about the "rediscovery" or rather reclassification of this monument (previously described as "the image of a warrior") in 1973, but no information about Bogdan Filov´s discovery. What is the source of this information?

 
Dear Aleš, Thank you for your feedback. After reviewing the information, I can confirm that the detail regarding Bogdan Filov’s discovery came from a travel website that has since disappeared. As I this source can’t be further verified, I’ll be adding a disclaimer to clarify the nature of the information provided. Warm regards
 
Thank you for your reply. My comment was in no way meant to be critical, I found the same information on the web. Personally, I have little doubt that Bogdan Filov (a fascinating figure, a leading Bulgarian archaeologist who became Prime Minister of the Fascist government during the Second World War and was executed by the People´s Court in February 1945 and buried in a mass grave) really did discover this monument, the problem is that I cannot find any published source for this information. Triandaphyllos is silent on the subject, but this is not surprising given that the tauroctony of Thermes is located in the disputed region once controlled by Bulgaria and now belonging to Greece, and he has no detailed knowledge of Bulgarian literature on the subject. Anyway, let´s hope that the information is there and that someone will be able to find it in the future.
 
Please be critical! As you can see, this article was written a long time ago and only quotes an article from https://www.balkantravellers.com, which was deleted shortly after. Any additional information you can provide, including Triandaphyllos’s article if it is publicly available, would be most welcome.
 
Oct 2024
NewSocius

I am an archaeologist from Macedonia. I have always been interested in Mithras. I am currently writing my MA thesis about the cult in my country.

 
Sep 2024
 
Scriptum

Hello. We new zartosht doesn’t wrote the book of avesta and he and other zorastarians just edited it. So my topic is about homosexuality in Mithraism. We now homosexuality banned in avesta with very rough punishment in this world purgatory. But we have many high ranked characters in western mithraism(roman mithraism) they was homosexual or bisexual. So can you proove its banned or approved in mithraism?

 
My cult here works with those thing with what said in avesta. I wanna know we are doing right or wrong. We dont accept homosexuals in cult.
 
Interesting… but I think there might be a mix-up here. I mean everyone is entitled to their own views but we are discussing the Cult of Mithras here, not a Zoroastrian spin-off. Sure it may been influenced by Persian beliefs, but it mostly was a roman brotherhood based on Greco-Roman tradition. In any case, the Cult of Mithras was never a religion but rather a group of guys who shared certain vibes, tried to better themselves, and enjoyed hanging out together. So asking about who someone sleeps with,seems pretty out of place and at the polar opposite of what the cult of Mithras represents at least to me.
 
About zorastarianism. We’re not a spin-off of it. We have provements shows many parts of avesta book was wrote by mithraists not zorastarians.
 
Looking at the cult as a purely Roman construct, men having sex with men was as acceptable as it was for any free Roman male. That is to say, without written proof to the contrary, male/male encounters were fine.
 
Oct 2024
Socius

Etudiant en dernière année de master à l’Université de Bourgogne. Je travail sur la vaisselle inscrite découverte dans les mithraea en Gaule.

 
Sep 2024
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.

 
Sep 2024
Syndexios

Kastos (son)

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

 
Sep 2024
NewMonumentum

Dedication to Zeus-Helios, Mithras, and Phanes

This is the first known inscription that includes Phanes alongside Mithras found in a Mithraic context.