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 Mithraeum of Santa Prisca houses remarkable frescoes showing the initiates in procession.
A mosaic of Silvanus, dated to the time of Commodus, was found in a niche in a nearby room of the Mithraeum in the Imperial Palace at Ostia.
The Mithraeum of Osterburken could not be excavated bodily owing to the water of a well in the immediate neighbourhood. The monument had been covered carefully with sand.
Cautes of the mitreo di Santa Prisca
Inscription of Septimius Archelaus
Altars of two Clarissimi in the Phrygianum of the Vatican
Mithras riding the bull
Tauroctony of the Villa Borghese
Inscription by Aurelius Rufinus of Andros
Aion relief of Palazzo Colonna
Frescoes from the tomb of Aelius Magnus and Aelia Arisuth in Oea
Tauroctony of Aelius Hylas from Doştat
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Back in February 2011, I received a report that the Mithraeum at Caesarea had been "torn down." In"…
If you want definitive proof that Mithraism was different in every corner of the empire, just read t…
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Interesting that the couch's covering isn't recognizable as the slain bull, though I'm not sure I wo…
It makes perfect sense. My hesitation would lie in the time gap that separates Mithraism and Freemas…
British Museum: Gallery 52, display case 5 (G52/dc5)
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An ayahuasca analog would have been mixed in the krater and drunk by Mithras worshipers. Two ingre…
Monreal 12th centyry AD. 1,000 years after mithraism...
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