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The New Mithraeum Database

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

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Michelangelo’s Puzzle. Forgery, Star Maps, and the Sistine Chapel

Rebecca Jelbert explores Michelangelo’s major works through the lens of hidden structures, symbolic systems, and esoteric traditions. It considers how themes associated with Mithras and other mystery cults may illuminate new interpretative possibilities within Renaissance art…

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The Path of Enlightenment in the Mithraic Mysteries

The first and the third of the following essays written by Julius Evola are dedicated to the mysteries of Mithras, while the second essay concerns itself with the Roman Emperor, Julian.

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Flavius Aper altar (CIMRM 1584)

The altar of Ptuj depicts Mithras and Sol on the front and the water miracle on the right side.

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Justin Martyr: Mithras as a demonic imitation of Christ

In these two key passages, Justin Martyr interprets Mithraic rituals and myths as demonic parodies of Christ’s incarnation, the Eucharist, and biblical revelation.

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Mithräum von Friedberg

There have probably been three mithraea discovered at Friedberg.

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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.

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Notes on a new Cautes statue from Apulum (jud. Alba / RO)

The article examines two recently discovered Mithraic representations of Cautes from Alba Iulia, focusing on a rare iconographic type showing the torchbearer with a bucranium.

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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.

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Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World

This collective volume explores the ways ancient peoples interacted with divine powers through prayer, magic, and the interpretation of the stars. Drawing on evidence from Mesopotamia to Late Antiquity, it situates these practices within broader religious and cosmological systems…

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The “Mithras Liturgy”. Text, Translation, and Commentary

A critical edition of the Mithras Liturgy (PGM IV.475–834), providing the Greek text, English translation, commentary, and an updated discussion of its interpretation since Albrecht Dieterich’s 1903 edition.

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Le feu de Mithra. Une enquête du centurion

A Roman centurion investigates a ritual murder and a deadly new weapon, the Fire of Mithras, from the alleys of Lutetia to the battle of Argentoratum.

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Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance

Professor Wind's acclaimed work explores pagan mysticism and neoplatonic philosophy in Renaissance art, offering insightful analyses of masterpieces by Botticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian.

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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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Il Mitreo del Circo Massimo. Studio preliminare di un monumento inedito tra archeologia, conservazione e fruizione

This volume collects the first results of the extensive and articulated research project dedicated to the Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus.

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Corpus Hermeticum

The links between Egypt and Greece are strong and far-reaching, and although the zoomorphic gods frightened Herodotus, the fact remains that the two cultures continued to influence each other.

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Mithras

Mithras explores the history and practices of the ancient mystery religion Mithraism, looking at both literary and material evidence for the god Mithras and the reception and allure of his mysteries in the present.

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