Ernest Renan suggested that without the rise of Christianity, we might all have embraced the cult of Mithras. Nevertheless, it has had a lasting influence on secret societies, religious movements and popular culture.
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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
A votive altar referring to the cult of Mithras was found more than forty years before the site was excavated and the Mithraeum discovered.
The Mackwiller Mithraeum was built in the middle of the 2nd century, during the reign of Antoninus the Pious, on the site of a spring already worshipped by the natives.
The Niasar Cave, غار نیاسر, was a temple probably devoted to Iranian Mithras that dates back to the early Partian era.
The Mithraeum of Spoleto was found in 1878 by the professor Fabio Gori on behalf of Marquis Filippo Marignoli, owner of the land.
Tauroctony of Mauls
Cautes and Cautopates of Sarrebourg
Relief of Aion on globe
Altar of Gaius Iulius Crescens of Friedberg for Respectus
Inscription of Cimber and Exsocho from Cologne
Tauroctonia de Carnuntum (III ?)
Mithras taurophorus of Ptuj
Aion relief of Palazzo Colonna
Triptic of Tróia
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As far as I can find the CIMRM number of this one is: 1083 and not 606.
A FINE NOTE AND WILL LIKE TO KNOW MORE IN INDIAN CONTEXT ALSO TO SEND MY INDIAN INPUTS
that's where I live.... Sarrebourg
For Laura Thomas. I installed a Google Earth image of Caesarea Maritima on my website. (URL abov…
here is the altar of Sarrebourg , picture tooken in 1890.
Welcome my friend! Glad to see you.
Thank you for sharing @dominique.persoons It would be great if we can get it in a better definition.
You might be interested in a digital reconstruction that I did of the 2nd c. AD tauroctonyhttps://tw…
An ayahuasca analog would have been mixed in the krater and drunk by Mithras worshipers. Two ingre…
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