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Rudchester Mithraeum. Coordinates: 55°0′5.53″N 1°49′44.18″W. Rudchester Mithraeum is a Roman temple to the Roman god Mithras at Rudchester ( Vindobala ), an auxiliary fort on Hadrian's Wall, the northern frontier of Roman Britain. The temple (known as a mithraeum) was located 137m to the west of the castra.
Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online Edition. Diakses tanggal 2011-03-24. The term “Mithraism” is of course a modern coinage. In antiquity the cult was known as “the mysteries of Mithras”; alternatively, as “the mysteries of the Persians.”…The Mithraists, who were manifestly not Persians in any ethnic sense, thought of themselves as ...
Mithraism, a sect of Zoroastrianism characterized by the worship of Mithra as the defender of the truth, was a monotheistic mystery religion prevalent in the Roman empire before the acceptance of Christianity in the fourth century. Followers of Mithra became less common after the Roman emperors banned their cults, and Christianity gained the ...
The Mithraeum of Dura Europos was found during excavations in the city in 1934. It is considered to be one of the best-preserved and best-documented cult buildings of Mithraism . The temple is located in the northwest of the city, near the city wall. It is a free-standing building made of adobe bricks. The execution of the masonry is described ...
Mithraism ja kristlus. Kristluse ja mithraismi sarnasus oli probleemiks juba hilisel antiikajal. Kristluse väljakujunemine ei toimunud kultuurilises isolatsioonis. Saulus, kes Kristust tolle elu ajal ei kohanud ja tema õpetusi vahetult ei kuulnud, oli pärit Tarsose linnast sealtsamast Kiliikast. Seega pidi ta vähemalt Mithra kultuse ...
The Mithraic Mysteries, also known as Mithraism, were a mystery cult in the Roman world where followers worshipped the Indo-Iranian deity Mithras (Akkadian for "contract") as the god of friendship, contract and order. The cult first appeared in the late 1st century CE and, at an extraordinary pace, spread from the Italian Peninsula and border ...
MITHRAISM . The name Mithraism, with its equivalents in other languages, is a modern term for a cult known, at least to Christian writers and in later antiquity, as "the mysteries of Mithras," but for which the most neutral term is "the Roman cult of Mithras." Its usual organization was based on small, exclusively male groups that gathered for ...
