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 sixth temple dedicated to Mithras has been identified for the first time in the military sector of the ancient Roman city of Aquincum.
To date, there is no evidence that the so-called Mithraeum of Burham was ever used to worship the sun god.
The Mithraeum of Frutosus was in a temple assigned to the guild of the stuppatores.
The Niasar Cave, غار نیاسر, was a temple probably devoted to Iranian Mithras that dates back to the early Partian era.
Gnostic amulet with Mithras monogram
Aion altar of Bordeaux
Mithraic Sol altar with backlight of Bingen
Aesculapius of Merida
Altar of Carnuntum by Sacidius Barbarus
Tauroctony from the Mithräum von Heddernheim
Petrogenia of Aquincum
Aion from Villa Barberini
Tauroctony of Velletri
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If this phallus really belonged to the mithraeum where it is currently placed and not elsewhere, the…
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The modern Masonic lodge is organised around the starry vault, but the officers are still arranged i…
On the York Tauroctony from C. Wellbeloved, Eburacum (1842) This Mithraic group was found in the …
An ayahuasca analog would have been mixed in the krater and drunk by Mithras worshipers. Two ingre…
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I did not express myself well. I think that this golbe or ball is the soul but also of Plato's Anima…
I participated in the Combined Caesarea Expeditions for three weeks in 1993. We excavated the hills…
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