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
The Mithréum de Bourg-Saint-Andéol was built against a rock where the main Tauroctony was chiseled.
The Mithraeum of Biesheim-Kunheim is located near the ancient village of Altkirch, near the Rhin.
After Christianity was adopted, most pagan monuments were destroyed or abandoned. Garni, however, was preserved at the request of the sister of King Tiridates II and used as a summer residence for Armenian royalty.
In the 1900s a model Mithraeum was built in Saalburg in the mistaken belief that there was an original temple of Mithras in an ancient Roman building.
Altar of Pisignano
Mithras head of Arles
Tauroctony of the Mithraeum of Lucciana
Tauroctony of Macerata
Tauroctony of Quirinale
Petrogenia of Aquincum
Altar by Hector Corneliorum of Mérida
Plaque of Milan by Ulbius Gaianus
Prostrate figure fresco of Capua Vetere
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Thank you for sharing it and congratulations for your beautiful and interesting work.
I participated in the Combined Caesarea Expeditions for three weeks in 1993. We excavated the hills…
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I know the Mithras site (since my childhood) at Carrawburgh and have worked at the APX Xanten (Germa…
I would humbly suggest that #6 on the left might be a representation of Narcissus, having fallen in …
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I would also heartily recommend the exhibition catalog - it's a fantastic work, combining essays fro…
Hello, I love this slab. Here, Cautes is carrying a torch with a figure on it, climbing towards the …
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