#mithraeum

[thesilicontribesman]

Roman Relief Showing Mithras Being Born From The Cosmic Egg, Housesteads Mithraeum, Hadrian's Wall, Great North Museum, Hancock, Newcastle upon Tyne

[howamidrivinginlimbo]

Basilica di San Clemente al Laterano in Rome, Italy

Under the basilica that stems from the 12th century, there are two more layers that you are able to visit: a basilica from the 4th century and a mithraeum from the 2th century.

In my opinion the most interesting church Rome has to offer.

[yoursincalendricalheresy]

So, if the corpse of a lyctor’s cavalier remains in stasis without any sort of decay… what happened to the bodies of the og cavs?

[zetajuno]

when i made this blog and was choosing my tagging system i deliberately broke away from the trend at the time which was to tag lyctors using their cavalier’s names as surnames (mercy would be ‘mercymorn cristabel’ etc).

at the time i thought it reductive to conflate the two, as even after 10,000 years they were characters in their own right.

so imagine my chagrin knowing that this tagging system (cytherea loveday, ianthe naberius) is now objectively correct. their souls are inseparable from each other. after 10,000 years, this is the only true way to refer to them because the characters we see are neither one nor the other

[evilcatchild]

Very little is known about Mithras and the cult that surrounded him, due to the fact all ceremony and religious practice was deeply secretive. Mithra originally came from Iran, becoming Mithras when entering the Roman Empire. The cult was popular among soldiers and was made up exclusively of men. What Mithras was the god of isn't entirely known but he's associated with Sol, god of the sun. Most Mithraeums have a depiction of the tauroctony, Mithras killing the bull. The cult disappeared in the 4th century largely due to persecution by early Christians. I went to London Mithraeum this summer and it's genuinely such a cool place, got to sit in the dark and listen to Latin chanting, if you like archaeology I definitely recommend it.

[spoondrifts]

Hi my name is Harrowhark Nonagesimus the First and I'm from the Ninth House (that’s how I got my name) with short black hair and black and white skull facepaint and fiery golden eyes like molten sun and a lot of people tell me they look like Gideon Nav's (AN: if u don’t know who she is, neither do I.) I’m not related to The Body of the Locked Tomb but I wish I was because she’s a major fucking hottie. I’m a lyctor but my body doesn't heal on its own. I have brown skin. I’m also a necromancer, and I live on a magic spaceship called the Mithraeum in an asteroid field where I’m in my first year of lyctorhood (I’m eighteen). I’m a goth (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly black. I love bones and I construct all my accessories with them. For example today I was wearing a bone ribcage with matching bone earrings and bone knuckle-rings, black underclothes, and a flimsy iridescent lyctoral cape. I was wearing black and white skull facepaint to hide the bags under my bloodshot eyes. I was walking through the Mithraeum. It was in deep space so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. Ianthe stared at me. I put up my middle finger at her.

[honeybeelullaby]

[synthetic-puppy-intelligence]

has anyone talked about how the Name of the Mithraeum is yet another thing John Gay-Ass stole from paganism? like a Mithraeum is a temple dedicated to Mithras. they're ancient Roman and there's one under London

[espressotrashcan]

Honoring my divine feminine by making Murder Soup

[aurorasulphur]

Re: Kiriona and Ianthe and their secret handshake, I would like to direct you to this line on wikipedia in its article on Mithraism, the ancient religion “centered on Mithras” which worshiped at places called mithraeum (s.)/mithraea (pl.):

Initiates called themselves syndexioi, those "united by the handshake".

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraism

[thesilicontribesman]

The Temple of Mithras, Carrawburgh, Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland

[starofmithras]

Statue of Mithras in the Archaeological Museum of Ostia, Rome, Italy. Photograph by Jouko Lehto

Glory unto Mithras during this waning crescent moon! 🌙

"Mithras, God of the Midnight, here where the great bull dies, Look on Thy children in darkness. Oh take our sacrifice! Many roads Thou hast fashioned: all of them lead to the Light, Mithras, also a soldier, teach us to die aright!"

Rudyard Kipling

[totto70]

Amazing ruins of a Roman temple, hidden beneath the streets of London

[the-rambling-man]

[kevlo75]

More than 14,000 individual artefacts were recovered, including 63,000 sherds of Roman pottery and three tonnes of animal bone, providing evidence of trade, consumption, food and industry. Each object tells a story and was made, handled, treasured, worn, consumed, lost or discarded by someone from Roman Londinium. #mithraeum #london (à London Mithraeum) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp147luo1Fi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jenevas]

So let them lie