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-CIMRM 389. Detail from the cloak of Mithras, from the Mithraeum from the Palazzo Barberini, 3 rd century CE. Above the tauroctony are the raven and the busts of seven planets: left to right, Sol with a radiate crown, bearded Saturnus with long hair, Venus with a diadem, bearded Jupiter with a kalathos, Mercury with a winged petasus, bearded Mars with a helmet, Luna with a crescent above her head. On the lower border, left to right, three individuals recline at a table; a naked child-like figure rides in a biga, with a flying shoulder cape and quiver, possibly representing Sol in his chariot; a bearded individuals reclines, possibly Oceanus. Vermaseren 1956-1960.
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Pragmatic cognitive science, rooted in Dewey's epistemology and models of distributed cognition, offers new hypotheses for the emergence and decline of the Mithraic rites. These models foreground the responsiveness of the rites to their economic and social environment, generating new form-meaning pairs through multimodal engagements inside the Mith...
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... large, may evoke planets. 23 In a relief at Neuenheim, Mithras' mantle takes the form of a circular globe, in which two folds mark the annual course of the zodiac. And on the tauroctony of the Barberini Mithraeum, the globe-like mantle of the god bears seven large stars, while additional large stars with short rays are painted behind the god (FIG. 2, CIMRM 389). 24 The seven planets may be evoked in the form of seven burning altars, as on a marble relief from the Esquiline (CIMRM 368), a tauroctony from Dura Europos (CIMRM 40-41), and a relief from Ladenburg (CIMRM 1275). 25 Alternatively, they may appear as busts of planetary gods, as on a bronze plaque from Brigetio in Pannonia Superior ...
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... liturgy in which the initiate, having summoned Sol Mithras, takes wing like an eagle, leaving earth behind as he ascends to the planetary spheres to become a soul star. 45 Iconographic evidence for this notion comes from the ladder-like mosaic that runs down the center of the mithraeum of Felicissimus in Ostia Antica, dated to the 3 rd century CE (FIG. 12, CIMRM 299). 46 The mosaic consists of icons for the grades of the rites as Porphyry identifies them -Raven, Male Bride, Soldier, Lion, Persian, Sun-runner, culminating in the Father. They are laid out in ascending order, beginning at the entrance and concluding with Felicissimus' declaration of the fulfilment of his vow, directly in front of the ...
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... large, may evoke planets. 23 In a relief at Neuenheim, Mithras' mantle takes the form of a circular globe, in which two folds mark the annual course of the zodiac. And on the tauroctony of the Barberini Mithraeum, the globe-like mantle of the god bears seven large stars, while additional large stars with short rays are painted behind the god (FIG. 2, CIMRM 389). 24 The seven planets may be evoked in the form of seven burning altars, as on a marble relief from the Esquiline (CIMRM 368), a tauroctony from Dura Europos (CIMRM 40-41), and a relief from Ladenburg (CIMRM 1275). 25 Alternatively, they may appear as busts of planetary gods, as on a bronze plaque from Brigetio in Pannonia Superior ...
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... liturgy in which the initiate, having summoned Sol Mithras, takes wing like an eagle, leaving earth behind as he ascends to the planetary spheres to become a soul star. 45 Iconographic evidence for this notion comes from the ladder-like mosaic that runs down the center of the mithraeum of Felicissimus in Ostia Antica, dated to the 3 rd century CE (FIG. 12, CIMRM 299). 46 The mosaic consists of icons for the grades of the rites as Porphyry identifies them -Raven, Male Bride, Soldier, Lion, Persian, Sun-runner, culminating in the Father. They are laid out in ascending order, beginning at the entrance and concluding with Felicissimus' declaration of the fulfilment of his vow, directly in front of the ...
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