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Peter Mark Adams,
Mithras and the Renaissance

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.

Andreu Abuín

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Some places to visit

  • Mithraeum of Nush-i Jan

    The Nushijan Mithraeum testifies to the worship of Mithra in the region since before the Zoroastrian reform.

     
  • Mithraeum II of Aquincum in Victorinus’s house

    This temple of Mithras in Aquincum was located within the private house of the decurio Marcus Antonius Victorinus.

     
  • Mithraeum of Močići

    The Mithraeum of Mocici was situated in a grotto at one hour's walk fomr the ancient Epidaurum.

     
  • Mitreo degli Animali

    The Mithraeum of the Animals was decorated with a mosaic depicting a naked man, a cock, a raven, an scorpion, a snake and the head of the bull.

     

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Guest insights

Jorge Gallo

glad you enjoyed. it's just a draft by now. Cheers

 

The New Mithraeum

Excellent idea ;)

 

Franzo Moss

great article, you should put it on the main page, Jorge! thanks

 

The New Mithraeum

Thank you for sharing @dominique.persoons It would be great if we can get it in a better definition.

 
 

Alejandro Jiménez

The so-called Elephant Tomb was not a tomb. The data that support its character as a mithraeum deriv…

 

Mithraeum.eu

Indeed, Dionisia. Thanks for noticing. Well corrected.

on Aion of Villa Albani

 

Milo Fascino

Il piacere è tutto mio.

 

Pattie Lawler

I appreciate this article as it spawned and actual (gasp!) conversation on the facebook group. Mithr…

on From Mithraism to Freemasonry. A history of ideas

 
 

Marcus

I am a devotee of Mithras Thank you for this interview. I think the author is right when he highligh…

on The MITHRA Project

 
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