🪷 Predating #Easter: #Antinous embodies #Phanes, #Mithras, #SolInvictus hatching from the #OrphicEgg encircled by #Ouroboros and the Zodiac.🪷

Crypt of the Cathedral of Saint-Cyr-and-Sainte-Julitte in Nevers, France, 2021

A crypt (from Latin crypta "vault") is a stone chamber beneath the floor of a church or other building. It typically contains coffins, sarcophagi or religious relics. First known in the early Christian period, in particular North Africa and Byzantium, churches were often built over a Mithraic temple, erected in classical antiquity by the worshippers of Mithras. Worshippers of Mithras had a complex system of seven grades of initiation and communal ritual meals. Initiates called themselves syndexioi, those "united by the handshake". They met in an underground temple, the so called Mithraeum. This Mithraeum was either a natural cave or cavern, or a building imitating a cave, that was adopted by the early christian builders to serve as a crypt for the newly build church above.

In antiquity the Mithraeum primarily functioned as an area for initiation, into which the soul descends and exits. The Mithraeum itself was arranged as an "image of the universe". It is noticed by some researchers that this practice, especially in the context of mithraic iconography, seems to stem from the neoplatonic concept that the "running" of the sun from solstice to solstice is a parallel for the movement of the soul through the universe, from pre-existence, into the body, and then beyond the physical body into an afterlife.

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Watching a recorded Treadwells bookshop talk about the Mithras cult in London. And remembering the fairly recent find of an altar to Mithras at Inveresk in Scotland. Many pics viewable in free to read supplementary material for the paywall-locked journal article. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/britannia/article/abs/mithras-in-scotland-a-mithraeum-at-inveresk-east-lothian/544B6233F7F06415EE049C60A827C3C0#supplementary-materials #Mithras #RomanBritain #AncientRome #Scotland #EastLothian #Inveresk #Archaeology

#Roman #Mithras in the snow. #Fellbach
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🪷 This Roman Temple of #Mithras #SolInvictus is aligned to sunrise at the #Solstice and the 25 Dec birthday of the unconquerable Sun God. Archaeologists used satellite imagery to study the temple at Carrawburgh in northern England. Full story: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/12/mithras-temple-in-northern-england-was.html 🪷

🪷 #Saturnalia: Happy Mid-Winter Festival of your choice! December 25th the son/sun is reborn, known by many names: #SolInvictus, Jesus, #Adonis, #Dionysus, #Horus, #Herne, #Attis, #Freyr, #Mithras. In celebration of the return of #Antinous Invictus. More: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-saturnalia-golden-age-of-saturn.html 🪷

Zalig Mithramis! #Mithras https://historyforatheists.com/2016/12/the-great-myths-2-christmas-mithras-and-paganism/

🪷 We celebrate the return of #Antinous #Invictus (Unconquerable Gay God) between December 25th and January 1st, the Golden Age of #Saturn's reign. This is a time outside time, an occasion for #Saturnalia joy as #SolInvictus returns & #Mithras fecundates the cosmos: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-saturnalia-golden-age-of-saturn.html 🪷

🪷 We celebrate the return of #Antinous #Invictus (Unconquerable Gay God) between December 25th and January 1st, the Golden Age of #Saturn's reign. This is a time outside time, an occasion for #Saturnalia joy as #SolInvictus returns & #Mithras fecundates the cosmos: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-saturnalia-golden-age-of-saturn.html 🪷