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
The Mitreo dei Castra Peregrinorum was discovered under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome.
The Mithraeum of Kunzing was an underground building, oriented east-west. The entrance was probably on the east.
The Mithraeum of Lucretius Menander was installed in the early 3rd century in an alley to the east of a Hadrianic building named after the solar god temple.
The Mithraeum of Cyrene is preserved among the remarkable ruins of the ancient capital of the Roman province of Cyrene.
Isis de Mérida
Two Mithras-Attis terracotta from Kerch
Mithras Petrogenitus of Alba Iulia
Cautes of Mérida
Candelabrum of Doryphorus
Altar to Mithras at the Walters Art Museum
Inscription of Lucius Sempronius
Altar by Aelius Secundinus of Novaria
Inscription of Olympus to his grandfather
Sententia
On the York Tauroctony from C. Wellbeloved, Eburacum (1842) This Mithraic group was found in the …
I had this stone in front of me yesterday in the Xanten archaeological park and was overwhelmed... u…
here’s a wonderful article, full of meanings to explain the different gods. In the religion of Mit…
By the way, there is this video by @nicolas.amoroso that tells a lot about mithraic images in the me…
I did not express myself well. I think that this golbe or ball is the soul but also of Plato's Anima…
Visited 2 times. Different stone type also.
If this phallus really belonged to the mithraeum where it is currently placed and not elsewhere, the…
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