Traveler down the rabbit hole discovering links between Freemasonry and Mithraism.

Son of the patriarch of the Olympius saga, of senatorial rank, who for at least three generations watched over a Mithraic community in the 4th century Rome. Aurelius is the son of Nonius Victor ...

A standing half naked man makes offerings to an altar while holding a cornucopia in his other hand. D(eo) I(nvicto) M(ithrae) // Priscinius Sedulius / Primulus ...

The membership list of this cult includes two men classified as probable municipal freedmen of Sentinum. Sentin(as) Ianuarius was the high priest pater leonum recorded in Column I, Line 5, and then ...

Son of Aurelius Victor Augentius, grandson of Nonius Victor Olympius, and elder brother of Emlianus. He built temples for worship around 382-383.

This monument bears an inscription by a certain Lucius Aelius Hylas, in which he associates Sol Invictus with Jupiter. Io(vi) S(oli) invi(cto) / deo genitori / r(upe ...

Daily Gazette Acta diurna is our Mithraic social stream for keeping up to date with what is happening in The New Mithraeum.

Flavius Antistianus was a prominent figure in the Roman Mithraic cult. He held the distinguished title of pater patrum, suggesting his considerable influence and authority within the Mithraic ...

Acta diurna is our Mithraic social stream for keeping up to date with what is happening in The New Mithraeum.

This marble altar was found ’in the street called di Branco’, behind the palace of the Cardinal of Bologna, in Rome. Deo / invicto / Mithrae / C(aius) Lucretius ...