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🔥 UNDERGROUND RITUALS AND CANDLES – LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS 🕯️
Mithraea were not magnificent temples on hilltops. They were hidden underground — dark, elongated spaces with an altar at the end, symbolising the cave of the cosmos.
In such a place, light acquired a special meaning.
Worship took place by:
🕯️ the light of torches and oil lamps,
🍷 symbolic ritual meals,
🤝 oaths of loyalty among members of the brotherhood.
Mithraism was not a religion of the masses. It was a path of initiation, discipline, and quiet devotion.
For this reason it was especially popular among Roman soldiers — it taught brotherhood, trust, loyalty, and respect for order.
In the darkness of the mithraeum a light burned — not only a flame, but the idea that order overcomes chaos.
🏛️ In Poetovio too, a mithraeum once bore witness to these mysterious rites. In the very place where we walk today, torches once burned and oaths resounded.
![🔥 UNDERGROUND RITUALS AND CANDLES – LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS 🕯️
Mithraea were not magnificent temples on hilltops. They were hidden underground — dark, elongated spaces with an altar at the end, symbolising the cave of the cosmos.
In such a place, light acquired a special meaning.
Worship took place by:
🕯️ the light of torches and oil lamps,
🍷 symbolic ritual meals,
🤝 oaths of loyalty among members of the brotherhood.
Mithraism was not a religion of the masses. It was a path of initiation, discipline, and quiet devotion.
For this reason it was especially popular among Roman soldiers — it taught brotherhood, trust, loyalty, and respect for order.
In the darkness of the mithraeum a light burned — not only a flame, but the idea that order overcomes chaos.
🏛️ In Poetovio too, a mithraeum once bore witness to these mysterious rites. In the very place where we walk today, torches once burned and oaths resounded.
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