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Workman digging in a field near Dormagen found a vault. Against one of the walls were found two monuments related to Mithras.
This second tauroctony, found in the Mithraeum of Dormagen, was consecrated by a man of Thracian origin.
By reading Orphic theology together with Eleusinian ritual practice, the mysteries emerge as a structured mystagogy of transformation: a disciplined passage from forgetfulness (Lethe) to knowledge (aletheia), from mortality to participation in the divine.
This tauroctony may have come from Hermopolis and its style suggests a Thraco-Danubian origin.
A series of polemical passages in which a leading fourth-century Christian theologian presents the cult of Mithras as a religion defined by cruelty, bodily suffering, and shameful initiation rites.
These bronze medallions associates the image of several Roman emperors with that of Mithras, usually as a rider, in the province Pontus.
This inscription reveals the existence of a Mithraeum on the island of Andros, Greece, which has not yet been found.
Translation and Introductory Essay by Robert Lamberton. Station Hill Press Barrytown, New York 1983.
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.’.
Founded on the site of ancient Byzantium and refounded in 330 CE, Constantinopolis became an imperial residence in the eastern Roman Empire. In the 4th century, it was a key setting for interaction between traditional cults and Christian authority.
This Mithraic relief of the Danubian type was found in 1940 in the old town of Plovdiv.
The Mithraeum of Serdica was found in the fortified area of the ancient city of Serdica, now Sofia, Bulgaria.
This very fine relief of Mithras killing the bull was discovered in 2014 in Germán, near Sofia, Bulgaria, and is now housed in the Sofia History Museum.
