The Mysteries of Mithras

1 - Cover [Seite 1]
2 - Preface [Seite 6]
3 - Contents [Seite 10]
4 - Abbreviations [Seite 14]
5 - List of illustrations [Seite 18]
6 - Chapter 1: Basic Elements of Mithraism [Seite 24]
6.1 - § 1. Character and Bias of Ancient Sources on Mithraism [Seite 24]
6.2 - § 2. The Seven Grades of Initiation [Seite 28]
6.3 - § 3. The Initiatory Rituals [Seite 33]
6.4 - § 4. The Fourth Grade: Leo and his God Jupiter [Seite 39]
6.5 - § 5. A Christian Imitation of the Seven Initiation Grades [Seite 43]
6.6 - § 6. The Mithraic Cave [Seite 45]
6.7 - § 7. The Two Niches in the Mithraic Cave [Seite 48]
6.8 - § 8. Theories on the Cultural Origin of Mithraism [Seite 50]
6.9 - § 9. Mithraism from Zoroaster to Plato [Seite 51]
6.10 - § 10. How Christian was Roman Mithraism [Seite 53]
6.11 - § 11. History of Scholarly Research in Mithraism [Seite 58]
7 - Chapter 2: Mithraism, Kings, and Emperors [Seite 64]
7.1 - § 12. How were the Roman Emperors involved in Mithraism? [Seite 64]
7.2 - § 13. Who was Mithras? [Seite 68]
7.3 - § 14. Mithras and the Kings [Seite 73]
7.4 - § 15. The King as Mithras [Seite 76]
7.5 - § 16. Tauroctony on Coins from Tarsus [Seite 82]
7.6 - § 17. Invictus [Seite 84]
7.7 - § 18. The Cosmocrator and other Imperial Iconographies [Seite 87]
7.8 - § 19. Victoria and the Imperial Eagle [Seite 91]
7.9 - § 20. Sol and the Emperor [Seite 94]
7.10 - § 21. The Apotheosis of Roman Emperor [Seite 96]
7.11 - § 22. The Priests of Apollo [Seite 101]
7.12 - § 23. Apollo - Mithras [Seite 103]
7.13 - § 24. A Persian God with Divus Augustus [Seite 106]
7.14 - § 25. Salvation of the Soul [Seite 114]
7.15 - § 26. Mithras between Imperial Apotheosis and damnatio memoriae [Seite 121]
8 - Chapter 3: The Myths of the Origins (left Predellas) [Seite 126]
8.1 - § 27. Victoria and Mithras I: Saturn's Dream [Seite 126]
8.2 - § 28. Victoria and Mithras II: The Birth of Mithras from the Rock [Seite 130]
8.3 - § 29. Victoria and Mithras III: from Gigantomachy to the Birth of Mithras [Seite 135]
8.4 - § 30. The Miracle of the Water and the Birth of a New Humankind [Seite 137]
8.5 - § 31. Jupiter at Actium, the Gigantomachy, and the Sistrum [Seite 140]
8.6 - § 32. The Mithraic Prophecy [Seite 144]
8.7 - § 33. The End of the Civil War and the Prophecy [Seite 150]
8.8 - § 34. The Magi at Bethlehem [Seite 158]
8.9 - § 35. Mithras as an Archer [Seite 160]
8.10 - § 36. Appendix 1. Cautes and Cautopates [Seite 162]
9 - Chapter 4: The Myth of the Bull (Central Scene and Upper Predellas) [Seite 168]
9.1 - § 37. The Sacrifice of the Bull [Seite 168]
9.2 - § 38. The Meaning of the Mithraic Bull [Seite 174]
9.3 - § 39. Danaos, the Bull, and Augustus [Seite 175]
9.4 - § 40. The Bull on a Boat [Seite 178]
9.5 - § 41. Mercury and the Transitus [Seite 184]
9.6 - § 42. Salvation in the Mysteries of Mithras [Seite 189]
9.7 - § 43. Mithras the Hunter [Seite 192]
10 - Chapter 5: Sol's Coronation and Mithras' Apotheosis (Right Predellas) [Seite 194]
10.1 - § 44. The Right Predellas: Mithras and Sol [Seite 194]
10.2 - § 45. Mithras' Apotheosis [Seite 201]
10.3 - § 46. Refusing the Crown [Seite 206]
10.4 - § 47. The Spread of Mithraism in the Roman Empire [Seite 208]
10.5 - § 48. Imperial Freedmen and Mithraism [Seite 212]
10.6 - § 49. From Nero to Vespasian [Seite 215]
10.7 - § 50. Appendix 2. Tiridates' Coronation and Mithraism [Seite 221]
11 - Chapter 6: The Mithraic Aiones [Seite 228]
11.1 - § 51. Mazdaism vs. Mithraism [Seite 228]
11.2 - § 52. The Lion-Headed God [Seite 230]
11.3 - § 53. Orphic Pattern in Mithraism [Seite 238]
11.4 - § 54. The Lion and the Snake [Seite 241]
11.5 - § 55. The Supreme Triad of Mithraism [Seite 246]
11.6 - § 56. Treatment of Mazdaism [Seite 250]
11.7 - § 57. Tarsian Culture under the Roman Empire [Seite 251]
11.8 - § 58. Sandas, the Tarsian God of War and of the Dead [Seite 255]
11.9 - § 59. The God of the Dead is raised to the Hypercosmic World [Seite 259]
12 - Chapter 7: The System of Planetary and Hypercosmic Gods [Seite 264]
12.1 - § 60. The Seven Gods According to History. The First Four Gods [Seite 264]
12.2 - § 61. The Seven Gods According to Ancient Theogonies [Seite 265]
12.3 - § 62. The Three Uppermost Initiatory Grades [Seite 266]
12.4 - § 63. The Geography of a Mithraeum [Seite 269]
12.5 - § 64. The Whole System of Mithraic Gods [Seite 275]
12.6 - § 65. The Mithraic Triangle [Seite 280]
12.7 - § 66. The Central Position of Sol [Seite 282]
12.8 - § 67. The Mithraic Theogony [Seite 283]
13 - Chapter 8: Mithraism and the Magic Arts [Seite 288]
13.1 - § 68. Magic Deceptions [Seite 288]
13.2 - § 69. Knowledge of natural Substances among Hellenistic Magi [Seite 292]
13.3 - § 70. Magical Performances at Banquets [Seite 293]
13.4 - § 71. Supposed Magi [Seite 297]
13.5 - § 72. Gnostic Imitations of magic Performances [Seite 299]
13.6 - § 73. Speaking Skulls [Seite 300]
13.7 - § 74. Tricks during Mithraic Banquets [Seite 305]
13.8 - § 75. Deception or Truth? [Seite 309]
13.9 - § 76. How was a Mithraic Community organized? [Seite 312]
13.10 - § 77. The Psychological Impact of the Mysteries of Mithras [Seite 315]
13.11 - § 78. Teaching within the three higher Grades [Seite 316]
13.12 - § 79. Mithraic Secrecy and public Cults [Seite 318]
14 - Chapter 9: The Evolution of the Mithraism [Seite 320]
14.1 - § 80. Serapis in Some Mithraea [Seite 320]
14.2 - § 81. Hecate in Some Mithraea [Seite 323]
15 - Chapter 10: Para-Mithraism [Seite 326]
15.1 - § 82. Mithraic Worship out of the Mithraea [Seite 326]
15.2 - § 83. The Mithraic Catechism from Egypt [Seite 330]
15.3 - § 84. The "Mithras Liturgy" [Seite 331]
16 - Chapter 11: The latest devotees of Mithras [Seite 336]
16.1 - § 85. The End of Mithraism [Seite 336]
16.2 - § 86. The Mysteries of Mithras in the Christian Empire [Seite 340]
16.3 - § 87. Julian the Emperor and the Mysteries of Mithras [Seite 344]
16.4 - § 88. Julian and the Imperial Ideology [Seite 347]
16.5 - § 89. Romanization of Eastern Cults [Seite 350]
17 - Bibliography [Seite 356]
18 - Index [Seite 366]
18.1 - I. General Index [Seite 366]
18.2 - II. Index locorum [Seite 380]