The New Mithraeum Database

A Story Waiting To Pierce You offers a breathtaking insight into our past and our future as human beings. For the first time in centuries it traces the ancient threads that connect Mongolia, Tibet and Native Americans to the very origins of western civili…

A set of ancient inscriptions on marble found forty years ago in southern Italy, recording details so bewildering that scholars have kept silent about them. Strange evidence about a tradition of people who were mystics but who were so intensely practic…

«Con verdaderas dotes detectivescas va recorriendo lo que esas maneras abusivas de interpretar el pasado filosófico llevan consigo; el radical desconocimiento de una Atlántida sumergida que va emergiendo en virtud de las artes filológicas de este sing…

El poema de Parménides del siglo V a. C. es, además de uno de los pilares de la cultura occidental, un texto enigmático que ha desafiado a todos sus intérpretes durante más de dos mil quinientos años. A partir de un profundo conocimiento de la filol…

A conversation between Peter Mark Adams and Christophe Poncet on the esoteric tarot, in relation to the elite and Saturnian Sola-Busca tarocchi and the popular and luminous Tarot de Marseille.

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.

« Il y a environ cinquante ans, écrit Peter Kingsley, plusieurs inscriptions grecques ont été découvertes dans le sud de l'Italie, sur le site de la ville de Vélia, la patrie de Parménide. Leur étude révèle les traditions de philosophes antiques…

For the launch of our YouTube channel, we chat with the author, poet, essayist and friend Peter Mark Adams about the Sola-Busca Tarot, a Renaissance masterpiece, uncovering ties to the Mithras cult.

Peter Mark Adams’ The Game of Saturn: Decoding the Sola-Busca Tarocchi is the first full length, scholarly study of the enigmatic Renaissance masterwork known as the Sola-Busca tarot.

Professional author with a special interest in Greco-Roman ritual and sacred landscapes, art and philosophy.