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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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    Mithras in Hispania

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Some places to visit

  • Mitreo di Santo Stefano Rotondo

    The Mitreo dei Castra Peregrinorum was discovered under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome.

     
  • Mitreo dei Serpenti

    The Mithraeum of the Snakes preserves paintings of serpents, representing Genius Loci, part of an older private sanctuary, which were respected in the temple of Mithras.

     
  • Mithraeum of Inveresk

    The Mithraeum of Inveresk, south of Musselburgh, East Lothian, is the first found in Scotland, and the earliest securely dated example from Britain.

     
  • Mitreo della Crypta Balbi

    The Mithraeum of the Crypta Balbi was locted in the middle of a densely populated insula near the theatre of Cornelius Balbus.

     

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Guest insights

 

Thanks for sharing such an important piece of information

on Mitreo d'Orazio Muti

 

Alex

This is a great Mithraeum and a obliged visit if you go to Roma. It is located below San Clemente Ch…

on Mitreo di San Clemente

 
 

Wolf Janecke

I think there is no need of booking in advance. Just come to Frankfurt an feel happy Wolfgang Jane…

 

The New Mithraeum

Excellent idea ;)

 

Jorge Gallo

If this phallus really belonged to the mithraeum where it is currently placed and not elsewhere, the…

on Phallus relief from the Mithraeum of Tiddis

 
 

Alejandro Jiménez

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

 

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Welcome Mertseger. We do too ✨

 

Dominique PERSOONS

Dear Veronica, as a woman you cannot attend the ceremonies in the mithraeum. But you can help prepar…

 

Gabriel Simeoni

Welcome my friend! Glad to see you.

 
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