The New Mithraeum

The Mysteries of Mithras is an independent Initiatic Order which is inspired by and uses the allegory of the lost and ancient Mithraic Mysteries also known as Mithraism a previously influential Roman Cult of the same name.

Contemporary Italian artist exploring myth, sacred imagery and the legacy of the ancient world.

The mithraeum brought the cave of Mithras into the inhabited Roman world. Its benches, images and ritual furnishings created a place where a community could gather around the god and understand its sanctuary as an image of the cosmos.

Selected passages on Mithras drawn from Greek and Latin literary sources.

Shared meals, offerings and ceremonies of initiation brought the mysteries into the lives of his worshippers. Within the mithraeum, members took their places in a community whose activities recalled the deeds of the god and reflected the order of the heavens.

Although no complete ancient account of Mithras’ myth survives, the monuments of the Roman world preserve many scenes from the sacred narrative of the Mithraic mysteries.

A system of titles, symbols and ritual roles through which initiates held different identities and positions within the communities of Mithras.

Mithras, also known as Mitra or Mithra depending on the historical period, region, or language, is one of the oldest known Indo-Iranian divinities.

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After Christianity was adopted, most pagan monuments were destroyed or abandoned. Garni, however, was preserved at the request of the sister of King Tiridates II and used as a summer residence for Armenian royalty.

Urartian rock-cut sanctuary near Van, later known as Mher's Gate and associated in Armenian tradition with Mher, the Armenian form of Mihr.

Basalt altar from Dvin, dated to the 2nd century AD and interpreted as dedicated to Mithra on the basis of the symbols carved on its four sides.

Fragments of a marble bull discovered at Garni, interpreted by Armenian heritage authorities as remains of a group depicting Mihr fighting a bull.

An archaeological study of the Hellenistic sanctuary complex at Hoghmik in ancient Armenia.

Terracotta figurine from the Hoghmik sanctuary complex, identified by Hayk Hakobyan as Mihr-Mithra and dated to the 1st–3rd centuries AD.

Two marble fragments from a small statuette discovered at Artashat in 1971 and later interpreted as possible remains of a tauroctony.

Khachatryan, Zhores (1981) Artashat II: Ancient Necropolises (Excavations of 1971–1977). Archaeological Excavations in Armenia 17. Yerevan: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR.

Outlines of the History of Ancient Armenian Art from the sixth century BCE to the third century CE.

An Esoteric Interpretation of the Lord’s Prayer, Based on Rudolf Steiner’s Lecture Given in Karlsruhe on 4 February 1907.

Rudolf Steiner on the meaning of human life, death and the spiritual nature of existence.