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.
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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.
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.
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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 des Bolards was integrated into a therapeutic cultural complex related to healing waters.
The Mithraeum of Kunzing was an underground building, oriented east-west. The entrance was probably on the east.
There are references to two places of worship from Dieburg, whereby the Mithraeum, discovered in 1926.
Archaeologists discovered the 20th temple dedicated to Mithras in Ostia during the restoration of the domus del capitello di stucco in 2022.
Tauroctony of the Gran Mitreo de Mérida
Cultic mithraic vase of Zeughausstraße
Tauroctony of Macerata
Inscription of Olympus to his grandfather
Tauroctony of Târgușor
Altar of Senj made by the slave Hermes
Altar with openwork of Inveresk
Mosaic of the Mitreo di Felicissimo
Tauroctony of Zadar
Sententia
The Rudchester (Vidobala) Mithraeum Sometime before 1772 an unfinished altar was found at Rudchest…
Thank you for sharing it and congratulations for your beautiful and interesting work.
According to Robert J. Bull (February 2011) this Mithraeum has been demolished.
Indeed, Dionisia. Thanks for noticing. Well corrected.
Many thanks, Ines. Both pages have been merged.
I am a devotee of Mithras Thank you for this interview. I think the author is right when he highligh…
New excavations in the Villa del Mitra (Nov 22-February 23) have provided a room with benches and co…
Hello Gabriel, the article you present on the relationship between the religion of the unconquered…
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