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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Laurent Bricault has revolutionised Mithraic studies with the exhibition The Mystery of Mithras. Meet this professor in Toulouse for a fascinating look at the latest discoveries and what lies ahead.
It is well known that Mithras was born from a rock. However, less has been written about the father of the solar god, and especially about how he conceived him.
On the occasion of the discovery of a Mithraeum in Cabra, Spain, we talk to Jaime Alvar, a leading figure in the field of Mithraism. With him, we examine the testimonies known to date and the peculiarities of the cult of Mithras in Hispania.
Yolanda’s multimedia dissertation focuses on the cognitive mechanisms that motivate Mithras worshippers. Her work includes a podcast entitled Conversations about Mithras.
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A place of worship for the Roman god of light Mithras was discovered during archaeological excavations in Trier. This includes a larger relief.
Las excavaciones llevadas a cabo en el yacimiento arqueológico romano de la villa de Mithra, en Cabra (Córdoba), han deparado el excepcional hallazgo de un mitreo, o zona destinada al culto al dios Mithra, cuya estatua fue descubierta hace unos 70 años.
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On the occasion of the exhibition, the Royal Museum of Mariemont invites five experts from Europe to emulate the research on the cult of Mithras.
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.
Sarah E. Bond
La Domus de Mitreo y el Centro Arqueolóxico de San Roque muestran otra cara del viejo Lugo
Lorena García Calvo
This temple of Mithras in Aquincum was located within the private house of the decurio Marcus Antonius Victorinus.
The House of the Mithraeum of the Painted Walls was built in the second half of the 2nd century BC (opus incertum) and modified during the Augustan period.
A mosaic of Silvanus, dated to the time of Commodus, was found in a niche in a nearby room of the Mithraeum in the Imperial Palace at Ostia.
The Roman villa of Can Molodell had a sanctuary that has been related to the cult of Mithras.
Tauroctony of Monreale
Inscription of Corax Materninius Faustinus of Gimmeldingen
Aion from Muti's gardens
Cautes and Cautopates of Sarrebourg
Inscription of Lucius Sempronius
Fresco de Luna en el Mitreo de Santa Maria Capua Vetere
Felsgeburt des Mithras
Inscription of two Gessius from Sentinum
Inscription by Proficentius, Rome
Sententia
I appreciate this article as it spawned and actual (gasp!) conversation on the facebook group. Mithr…
hello @dominique.persoons This sphere with a single circle is quite unusual in Mithraic iconography…
I live in Sarrebourg, where the famous mithraeum was found by the Germans in 1890. In the 3d century…
Benvenuto Milo! Un piacere...
Interesting that the couch's covering isn't recognizable as the slain bull, though I'm not sure I wo…
Il piacere è tutto mio.
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We totally need a picture of this. Who's in the area? ;-)
I knew this amazing capital in Monreale. In Sicily, isn’t it? It’s quite remarkable, even if Mit…
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