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Mystai. Dancing out the Mysteries of Dionysos

The Dionysian themed frescos of Pompeii’s Villa of the Mysteries constitute the single most important theurgical narrative to have survived in the Western esoteric tradition.

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Le dieu mithriaque léontocéphale

Le groupe caractéristique « lion, serpent, cratère » marque le rapport avec le culte mithriaque, car comme nous croyons l’avoir montré, ce groupe ne symbolise pas la lutte des éléments, terre, eau et feu, mais la participation des animaux-attributs au sacrifice, par Mithra…

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Discourse on the doctrines and practices of the magi

Dion Chrysostom, c. 100 A.D., a philosophical writer under the emperors Nerva and Trajan, composed a series of discourses or essays (λόγοι) on various subjects, in one of which he reports concerning the doctrines and practices of the magi.

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Tiberius Claudius Balbilus

Scholar, politician and a court astrologer to the Roman emperors Claudius, Nero and Vespasian.

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Fragments of altars from Gimmeldingen

These fragmentary monuments, one with an inscription, were found in the Gimmeldingen mithraeum.

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Altar to Luna from Gimmeldingen

This sandstone altar was dedicated to Luna, who is mentioned as a male deity.

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Mithräum von Gimmeldingen

The few remains of the Mithraeum of Gimmeldingen are preserved at the Historical Museum of the Palatinate, in Speyer, Germany.

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Stele of Acilius Pisonianus from Milan

This high stele by a certain Acilius Pisonianus bears an inscription commemorating the restoration of a Mithraeum in Mediolanum, today's Milan.

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Interpreting the Ponza Zodiac

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.

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Mithrasstein Dieburg

Film in German describing the Mithras relief from Dieburg as part of the design and staging of the Mithraeum in Museum Schloss Fechenbach, Dieburg.

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Johannes Divjak

Prof. of Classics in University of Vienna

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Claudia Gato

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Mesut Dilaver

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Cautes from Les Bolards

This monument representing Cautes with uncrossed legs was consecrated by a certain Anttiocus.

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Sol and Luna altars from Thuburnica

Two small altars dedicated to Sol and Luna by the consul Q. Aradius Rufinus, found at Sidi Adi bel-Kassem near Thuburnica, probably dated 304-321 A.D.

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Sol Augustus altar from Timgad

Altar inscription dedicated to Sol Augustus by the decurion Valerius Carpus, from Timgad (ancient Thamugadi).

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Tauroctony from Santo Domingo de Silos

Mithras slaying the bull appears as the sign of Capricorn in a zodiacal sequence on the Pórtico del Cordero of the Abbey de Santo Domingo de Silos, Burgos, Spain.

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Vladimir Ilin

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Funerary urn of Chyndonax

This funerary inscription, engraved on a stone urn discovered near Roman Dijon, mentions a certain Chyndonax, described as a priestly leader of Mithras.

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