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Dedicated an altar found in Gallia Narbonensis on the occasion of his elevation to the grade of Perses.
Small triangular slab bearing a Latin inscription referring to Sol Invictus and to a sacred cave, probably dating to the 4th century AD.
Memoir by Félix Lajard analysing a Mithraic bas-relief discovered in Vienne in 1830. Based on direct examination of the fragments and their context, the study corrects an earlier misidentification and documents a rare lion-headed figure within a probable mithraeum…
The Mithraeum under the Basilica of San Clemente made part of a notable Roman house.
The cenders of Chyndonax were found on an urn with an inscription that reads High Priest of Mithras.
Estate manager and slave of Caius Antonius Rufus, prefect of roads and customs collector.
A comrade of Charitinus, he was a freedman who consecrated an altar to Mithras for the emperors Philip the Arab and Otacilia Severa.
Late antique legendary biography of Alexander the Great (c. AD 300), where history, myth, and imperial ideology merge around figures of divine kingship and solar power.
In the eighteenth year of Diocletian’s reign, Galerius Maximianus, persuaded by the sorcerer Theoteknos, consulted demonic oracles in a cave and was urged to initiate the persecution of the Christians.
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…
Peter Kingsley interpreta el poema de Parménides a la luz de inscripciones del sur de Italia y lo sitúa en un trasfondo religioso ligado a los ritos de incubación y a los sacerdotes de Apolo.
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.
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.
Manfred Clauss's introduction to the Roman Mithras cult has become widely accepted as the most reliable and readable account of this fascinating subject.
Wasson has aroused considerable attention by advancing and documenting the thesis that Soma was a hallucinogenic mushroom – none other than the Amanita muscaria, the fly-agaric that until recent times was the center of shamanic rites among the Siberian and Uralic tribesmen…
George Ryley Scott explores the significant role that male sexual organs, practices, and rites have played in various traditions throughout history and into the present day.
The legend of two twins from the original, Abin Mitra Ahriman Izad in Abin Mitrai: Diq The Lion God on the Interpretation of the Mysteries and Preferences of the Originality of Algebra in the Zoroastrian Religion.
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.
