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The New Mithraeum Database

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras

Your search Alain Verse gave 107 results.

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Atimetus

Imperial slave and an overseer of the Imperial estates who dedicated a Tauroctony to the Invincible god Sol.

 
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Le Phallus

It is only when the penis stands up straight, that it emits semen, the source of life. It is then called the phallus and has been considered, since earliest prehistory the image of the creative principle, a symbol of the process by which the Supreme

 
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Mithras in Africa

In his first book, Fahim Ennouhi sheds light on the cult of Mithras in Roman Africa. A marginal and elitist phenomenon, confined to restricted circles and largely absent from local religious dynamics, yet revealing.

 
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The Acosolium of the Mysteries in the Hypogeum of Vibia

The epigrahy includes a mention of Marcus Aurelius, a priest of the god Sol Mithras, who bestowed joy and pleasure on his students.

 
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Gnostic amulet with Mithras monogram

This silver amulet depicts Abraxas on one side and the first verses of the Book of Genesis in Hebrew on the other.

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Vettius Agorius Praetextatus

Pater patrum and Pater sacrorum among other titles.

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Lucius Petreius Victor

Garlic merchant, probably from Lusitania, who dedicated an altar to Cautes in Tarraconensis.

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Nonius Victor Olympus

Pater Patrum and Senator. He was also the patriarch of the Olympian dynasty, overseeing a Mithraic community in the centre of Rome.

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Julian

Roman emperor and philosopher known for his attempt to restore Hellenistic polytheism.

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Gaius Valerius Heracles

Pater and priest of the Fagan Mithtraeum with several monuments to his name.

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Caracalla

Emperor Caracalla ordered one of Rome’s largest temples to the god Mithras to be built in the baths bearing his name.

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Secundinus

Imperial slave and head of the customs statio of Esca in Noricum.

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Chyndonax (Χυνδόναξ)

The cenders of Chyndonax were found on an urn with an inscription that reads High Priest of Mithras.

 
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The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries. Cosmology & Salvation in the Ancient World

David Ulansey argues that Mithraic iconography was actually an astronomical code, and that the cult began as a religious response to a startling scientific discovery.

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