For those that are ready to wield the Herculean club, conquering inner and outer labors! Just like the Homeric Odyssey is a sacred text allegorizing the journey of the soul to Penelope, the ...

Rock-cut tauroctony forming the cult image of Mithraeum I at Doliche, later deliberately defaced by Christian iconoclasts.

Known from a dedication to Dominus Invictus in Malaca, he may represent an early and uncertain witness to Mithraism in ...

Known from a disputed inscription discovered near Mediolanum, she has been tentatively linked to a Mithraic dedication, ...

Aelia Arisuth may have been associated with a Mithraic community.

According to Ernst Renan, the renowned 19th-century historian of religion and philologist, if the Roman world had not become Christian, it would be Mithraic today. This controversial premise also ...

Twelve centuries separate the decline of Roman Mithraism from the dawn of Freemasonry. Twelve centuries during which the mysteries of Mithras have remained more secret than ever.

This imposing bas-relief was unearthed in 1965 during a public project being carried out in Ladenburg, at Kastellweg 7, in the south part of the ancient city of Lopodunum in Germania Superior. Its ...

This dynastic seal is traditionally attributed to Šauštatar, one of the most powerful kings of Mitanni during the fifteenth century BCE. The seal became a dynastic emblem and continued to be used by ...

Marble relief fragment from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving part of Mithras's flying cloak and the scorpion below the bull. Fragment of a marble relief (H. 0.16 Br. 0.15 D. 0.05).

Mithras, shown in Oriental dress and a flowing chlamys, plunges a dagger into the neck of the bull while restraining the animal beneath him. A raven appears on the god’s cloak, while a dog and a ...

Six marble fragments discovered in 1901 in the Second Mithraeum of Poetovio. The surviving pieces include the knee of Mithras and a serpent beneath the bull from a tauroctony relief, as well as ...