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Socius

Lenni George

Lenni is the author of The Rites of Hekate and has written and been published extensively on Hekatean practice exploring the goddess’s many faces. She also writes and works with what she calls “dark botanicals”, cultivating two distinct moon gardens

 
Notitia

A name older than Greece

On what Hekate’s name may or may not tell us, and why the uncertainty matters.

 
Monumentum

Mithraeum of Sidon

The Mithraeum of Sidon may have escaped destruction because the Mithras worshippers walled up the entrance to the underground sanctuary.

 
Monumentum

Mithréum de Sarrebourg

This rock-cut Mithraeum occupies the north-eastern slope of the Grand-Rebberg at Saarburg, featuring a stepped entrance, a sloping central aisle, lateral benches, and a spring-fed water conduit.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 1187

A fragmentary red sandstone relief preserves the upper part of three-headed Hekate holding a long object in her left hand.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 112

A white marble relief from the Forum Vetus shows Mithras with a raised lance, likely part of a larger ensemble of deities.

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Helios Mithra

Historian, Platonist, and practicing Mithraist writing on tradition, transcendence, and the soul’s ascent through history, myth, and metaphysics.

 
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CIMRM 992

Limestone altar from the Trier baths, carved on four sides with a lion and serpent, flanked by Sol and Luna, and likely linked to a Mithraic context involving Hekate.

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Dominique PERSOONS

medical doctor. Hypnotherapist. medieval art interpretation. Mithras mystery I live in Sarrebourg (France) where a marvelous mithraeum was discovered in 1890

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Aymen Boussouar

An Algerian chemistry student interested in roman culture I hope to be able to explore Mithras culture in my country because of the vast and important rule of this religion in my city tiddis

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Jose Aguilar del Rio

I am a graduate trying to complete a MA in archaeology. My Master`s Dissertation is about Mistery Cults in the Roman Empire

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony from Sisak

This marble relief, found in Sisak, Croatia, shows Mithras killing the bull in a circle of corn ears, gods and some scenes from the Mithras myth.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony from Nesce

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull of Nersae includes several episodes from the exploits of the solar god.

 
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CIMRM 1694

Sandstone base carved on two sides, with a head of Medusa framed by acanthus leaves and a reclining lion holding a head between its forelegs.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony from Stixneusiedl

Limestone tauroctony relief from Carnuntum with traces of polychromy and a graffito on the bull’s neck. The inscribed base was carved separately.

 
Scriptum

#74

Thinking of forming a weekly group for those in the Anglosphere(USA, Canada, UK, Australia and NZ) to have a webcam call, discuss all things related to Mithras and form friends sharing a niche interest:)

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 1743

Small limestone altar from Aquincum, Budapest, dedicated to Petra Genetrix.

 
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Intaglio with Mithras and Abraxas at the Walters Art Museum

This unusual piece depicts Mithras slaying the bull on one side and the Gnostic god Abraxas on the other.

 
Liber

Dossier Mithra. La alternativa espiritual del culto legionario

A selection of texts gathered by Ernesto Milá that reinterprets Mithraism as an initiatory, solar, and heroic cult. It includes the so-called Great Magical Papyrus of Paris, translated and commented by Julius Evola and the Ur Group.

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