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Manfred Clauss's introduction to the Roman Mithras cult has become widely accepted as the most reliable and readable account of this fascinating subject.
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.
This catalogue proposes, thanks to the contributions of some 75 international experts, a new synthesis for a complex and fascinating cult that reflects the remarkable advances in our knowledge in recent decades.
From the late first century CE, Mithras spread across the Roman Empire, leaving more than 130 sanctuaries and nearly 1,000 inscriptions. This volume offers a rigorous synthesis that renews our understanding of this enigmatic cult.
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.
Attilio Mastrocinque rethinks the Mithraic mysteries, challenging traditional interpretations through Roman religion, imperial ideology and iconography.
A comprehensive reassessment of the introduction, development and early decline of Mithraism in Roman Hispania, combining socio-historical analysis with the most complete catalogue of Hispanic Mithraic evidence currently available.
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.
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…
Manfred Clauss's introduction to the Roman Mithras cult has become widely accepted as the most reliable and readable account of this fascinating subject.
Ce livre, qui intègre les recherches et les découvertes les plus récentes, expose, avec clarté et rigueur, le dossier complexe et fascinant des Mithriaca.
Five tales of ancient gods and hidden traditions in the Roman countryside, where Mithraism, Shivaism and the sacred landscape challenge the certainties of the modern world.
Robert Turcan highlights various examples of the philosophical interpretation, mainly Platonic, of the figure and cult of Mithras.
