The New Mithraeum Database

Has dedicated the main cult relief of a temple in Carnuntum.

Donor of the monumental Borghese relief.

He dedicated the main known Tauroctony relief of Bergoiata, Nabonensis.

He commissioned the main cult relief found in the Mithraeum of Circo Massimo.

Antistes of several mithraea in Ostia.

Soldier recruited in Arausio (Orange), emeritus of the Legion II Augusta.

He erected one of the last known mithraea on his property.

Dedicated a statue of Arimanius in Eboracum, now in the Yorkshire Museum.

His name was added to the main tauroctony sculpture of the Mitreo Fagan.

Douze siècles séparent le déclin du Mithraïsme romain de l’aube de la Franc-maçonnerie. Douze siècles pendant lesquels les mystères de Mithra sont restés plus secrets que jamais.

Peter Mark Adams: ‘The initiation was a frightening experience that caused some people to panic as a flood of otherworldly entities swept through the ritual space.’

Tracing the links between the cult of Mithras and the Proud Boys’ quest for identity, power, and belonging. How ancient rituals and brotherhood ideals resurface in radical modern movements.

Ernest Renan suggested that without the rise of Christianity, we might all have embraced the cult of Mithras. Nevertheless, it has had a lasting influence on secret societies, religious movements and popular culture.

A place of worship for the Roman god of light Mithras was discovered during archaeological excavations in Trier. This includes a larger relief.

It is well known that Mithras was born from a rock. However, less has been written about the father of the solar god, and especially about how he conceived him.

Twelve centuries separate the decline of Roman Mithraism from the dawn of Freemasonry. Twelve centuries during which the mysteries of Mithras have remained more secret than ever.

The Temple of Mithras, inside an ancient military settlement, is situated on the eastern border of the Roman Empire.

Saul cutting the oxen to pieces poses as Mithras Tauroctonos in this painting, which adorns the mantelpiece of Henry II’s bedroom at the Château d’Écouen near Paris.

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In the 1900s a model Mithraeum was built in Saalburg in the mistaken belief that there was an original temple of Mithras in an ancient Roman building.

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The Aion / Phanes relief, currently on display in the Gallerie Estensi, Moneda, is associated with two Eastern mysteric religions: Mithraism and Orphism.

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