The New Mithraeum Database tagged with cancer

Between the 1st and 4th centuries, Mithraism developed throughout the Roman world. Much material exists, but textual evidence is scarce. The only ancient work that fills this gap is Porphyry’s intense and complex essay.

Roger Beck describes Mithraism from the point of view of the initiate engaging with the religion and its rich symbolic system in thought, word, ritual action, and cult life.

The Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres is of great importance for the understanding of the cult, because of its black-and-white mosaics depicting the planets, the zodiac and related elements.

TNMM9 – CIMRM 239

The Aion of Arles includes nine signs of the zodiac in three groups of three, between the spirals of the serpent.

TNMM148 – CIMRM 879

The author of this ingenious memoir believes that the Greek myth of Orion is the very basis of Roman Mithriacism. His starting point is an astronomical interpretation of tauroctony.

Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken 'the most remarkable of all the monuments of the cult of Mithras found up to now'.

TNMM176 – CIMRM 1292, 1293

The tauroctony relief of Sidon depicts the signs of the zodiac and the four seasons, among other familiar features.

TNMM142 – CIMRM 75

The Aion / Phanes relief, currently on display in the Gallerie Estensi, Moneda, is associated with two Eastern mysteric religions: Mithraism and Orphism.

TNMM327 – CIMRM 695, 696

The rich mosaics of the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres include the the signs of the Zodiac.

TNMM610 – CIMRM 242

White marble statue of Lion-head god of time, formerly in the Villa Albani, nowadays in the Musei Vaticani.

TNMM123 – CIMRM 545