The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross: A Study of the Nature and Origins of Christianity Within the Fertility Cults of the Ancient Near East is a 1970 book about t… ...

Peter Mark Adams challenges current academic conventions by restoring the term ‘mysteries’ to the cult of Mithras while offering a deep, well-informed, and nuanced point of view. His new book, ‘Ritual ...

Nothing is more fatal, indeed, than to love the obscenities and depravities of vice. What shall I say of the shameful scenes which take place in the caves where they hide their eyes? To escape from ...

Araxes is a river in Armenia, so called from Araxus the son of Pylus. For he, contending with his grandfather Arbelus for the empire, shot him with an arrow. For which being haunted by the Furies, he ...

Volute cushions (pulvini), rams’ heads in the volutes, acanthus chalice in between. Below the inscription bust of Cautopates. On the side sides profile head of Mithras with Phrygian cap above rocks.

The mystagogus, dressed in a white tunica with red stripes, stands with one foot on the calfs of the kneeling myste, who holds his hands folded under his chin. Another person, dressed in a red cloak, ...

MMM I 364, 78b mentions a relief (H. 0.72 Br. 0.39 D. 0.07) of the Galleria S. Giorgi (Palazzo Borghese), which may represent Mithras-Mên. The god is dressed in Eastern attire and holds in his r.h. a ...

White marble statuette (H. 0.41 Br. 0.17). Mus. Lateran, Inv. No. 319A. Standing Aion with lion’s head and four wings, two of which are pointing upwards, two downwards. He is entwined in seven coils ...

Marble statue (H. 0.85 Br. 1.10), found near the Viale Latino, about 200 mtrs from the Porta S. Giovanni. Mus. Capitolino. End of the 2nd cent. A.D. On a rocky base the statue of Mithras as a ...

Fresco in an arched niche (H. 1.80 Br. 1.10) above the right bench. Mithras, dressed in purple tunic with long sleeves and anaxyrides, wears on his head the Phrygian cap, of which only the point has ...

White marble relief (H. 0.56 Br. 0.86), broken in two parts. Found in 1872 near the Salita delle Tre Pile, a flight of steps, leading up to the Capitoline-hill and situated opposite to S. Maria d’ ...

Marble relief (H. 0.34 Br. 0.30 D. 0.13), probably found in Rome during the construction of the Palazzo Primoli along the Via Zanardelli. Was in the private colI. of Franz Cumont, now in the Belgian ...