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Inscription of Olympus to his grandfather

This monument is the only one still available from the disappeared Mithraeum in Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite.

Monumentum

Aion (?) from Janiculum Hill

Roman relief from a sanctuary on the Janiculum Hill (Rome), showing a male figure bound by a serpent coiled seven times.

Textum

Julian on Mithras

In these passages from his hymns and satires, Julian articulates a solar theology in which Helios governs cosmic order and time. Within this framework, Mithras appears as a personal divine guide associated with the ascent of souls.

Monumentum

Fragmentary tauroctony relief from Rome

Fragmentary relief corner depicting Mithras as bull-slayer, preserving the bull’s hindquarters, scorpion, serpent and part of a torchbearer, with a partial inscription.

Monumentum

Mitreo della Crypta Balbi

The Mithraeum of the Crypta Balbi was locted in the middle of a densely populated insula near the theatre of Cornelius Balbus.

Liber

Mithras és misztériumai I-II

Born in the mists of history, Mithras, the deity of light, known for at least 3,500 years and still revered today, has appeared in different ages, religions and forms. This volume explores the sources of the god's history, with a focus on the Roman myths of Mithras…

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Phallic Miscellanies. Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India

India, beyond all other countries on the face of the earth, is preeminently the home of the worship of the Phallus—Linga puja. It has been so for ages and remains so still.

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The Game of Saturn. Decoding the Sola-Busca Tarocchi

Peter Mark Adams’ The Game of Saturn: Decoding the Sola-Busca Tarocchi is the first full length, scholarly study of the enigmatic Renaissance masterwork known as the Sola-Busca tarot.

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Two esoteric tarots

A conversation between Peter Mark Adams and Christophe Poncet on the esoteric tarot, in relation to the elite and Saturnian Sola-Busca tarocchi and the popular and luminous Tarot de Marseille.

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Cultores Mithrae. Die Anhangerschaft Des Mithras-Kultes

The starting point of this study of the initiation into the cult of Mithras are the 462 sites where traces of the cult have been found to date. They form the framework of the study.

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Mithriaca III. The Mithraeum at Marino

This magnificently illustrated publication renews the Mithraic dossier on the basis of concrete data, with caution and penetration. Marino's discovery is disconcerting and rekindles the controversy about the order in which bands should be read.

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Mithriaca II. The Mithraeum at Ponza

Second volume of Vermaseren's series Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain, Mithriaca, dedicated to a small Mithraic sanctuary on the island of Ponza in the Tyrrhenian Sea.

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Testimonios de un culto oriental entre los astures transmontanos. La lápida y el santuario mitraicos de San Juan de la Isla (Asturias)

La localización de una comunidad mitraísta en San Juan de la Isla posee un notable interés, debido a la débil popularidad de este culto oriental entre las poblaciones de Hispania.

Monumentum

Mithréum de Septeuil

In the second half of the 4th century, a Mithraic temple was established within an earlier spring sanctuary at Septeuil, where the cult of the nymphs and Mithraic practices appear to have coexisted.

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Tauroctony on display in Virginia

Rich relief on display at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art showing Mithras sacrificing the bull accompanied by Cautes and Cautopates.

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