Espacio y práctica cultual de los misterios mitraicos

Authors

  • Israel Campo Méndez

Keywords:

mitraísmo, religiones mistéricas, cultos orientales, mitreo, banquete sagrado, liturgia, iniciación, comunidad, mithraism, mystery religions, oriental cults, mithreum, sacred banquet, liturgy, initiation, community

Abstract

Dentro del contexto religioso en transformación que caracteriza el cambio de Era y los primeros siglos del Imperio Romano, los cultos mistéricos de procedencia oriental constituyeron una oferta fundamental en la satisfacción de las inquietudes personales. Los misterios mitraicos gozaron de una especial aceptación en todas las regiones, y el aumento cuantitativo de sus espacios de culto es un hecho ampliamente confirmado por la arqueología. Pretendemos hacer una aproximación a las características que definieron estos templos mitraicos, para conocer mejor las prácticas cultuales que se desarrollaban en su interior y que diferenciaban la liturgia mitraica de las otras mistéricas.

The religious framework that characterizes the first centuries of the Roman Empire, found in the Mysteric Cults of oriental origin a fundamental offering in the satisfaction of the personal anxieties. The Mithraic Mysteries received a special acceptance around the Empire, and the quantitative increase of their spaces of worship is a fact extensively confirmed by Archaeology. We intend to do an approximation to the characteristics that defined these Mithraic temples, in order to a better knowing of the worship and religious practices that developed inside and that differentiated the Mithraic liturgy from others.

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Issue

Nº 8 (2004)

Section

Studies

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