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The article reveals the context in which the first public appearance of Mitra happened to answer two questions: who were the first people to give prominence to this deity, and for what purpose they did so.
Italian artist inspired by mythology, sacred art, and the classical world.
The mithraeum was the sacred space where the Mithraic brotherhood gathered for ritual, initiation, and communal meals.
Those initiated into the Mithraic cult were called upon to climb up to seven symbolic rungs of the ladder ultimately leading to the rank of Pater.
Although no written account of Mithras’ myth survives, the monuments of the Roman world preserve fragments of his sacred story.
Despite the current political landscape of the US, we can look to antiquity to see that the red cap was actually once a symbol of citizenship and welcome to the foreigner.
The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Zadar includes a naked Sol in a quadriga.
La Domus de Mitreo y el Centro Arqueolóxico de San Roque muestran otra cara del viejo Lugo
HBO Max's sci-fi series Raised By Wolves features a religious faction that references Sol and the Mithraic Mysteries. Here are the real-world Roman concepts the show borrowed from.
Some Iranian archaeologists suggest that the carving was created by a follower of Mithraism as it depicts a simple portrayal of a human with his right hand raised and an object in his hand. But, experts say it needs much more study in order to date the pe
How a rock relief in western Iran, carved during the time of the Sasanian Persian Empire (AD 224-651), has been re-imagined over the centuries.
The Mithriac votive sculpture comes from a clandestine excavation in the Tarquinia area. The criminal chain is active in archaeological areas of Rome and southern Etruria.
The Mithraeum of Cyrene is preserved among the remarkable ruins of the ancient capital of the Roman province of Cyrene.
The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Bologna depicts several scenes of the mithraic myth.
Germania preserves some of the densest concentrations of Mithraic evidence in the Roman frontier provinces.
This short animation traces one of the interpretations of the Mithras legend based on archaeological research.
The Cilician pirates incorporated significant divine feminine elements, notably Anahita, into their Mithraic practices, profoundly influencing the initiation rites within the Roman Empire.