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A cognitive study of the Roman cult of Mithras, exploring how initiation, ritual, iconography and the Mithraic environment shaped the perception, identity and worldview of its initiates.
The first academic journal devoted exclusively to the study of the cult of Mithras.
Porphyry states that the Mithraists “perfect their initiate by inducting him into a mystery of the descent of souls and their exit back out again, calling the place a ‘cave’.”.
Roger Beck revisits the zodiac circle of the Mithraeum on the island of Ponza, a composition unique within the Mithraic corpus. His reading places the monument in relation to cosmology, ritual space, and Mithraic doctrine.
Roger Beck describes Mithraism from the point of view of the initiate engaging with the religion and its rich symbolic system in thought, word, ritual action, and cult life.
