Who / What / Where Game

[Catfish]

Loosely connected.. but it is not about the magnetic pole here

https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...9&postcount=36

[Eichhörnchen]

In Naples?

[Catfish]

Not Naples, closer to Rome.
But there's also such a structure in Naples

[Buddahaid]

Vatican Catacomb?

[mapuc]

Pomp-something keeps on popping up in my head.

By experience I know it is not the answer.

Markus

[Catfish]

Not Vatican, or a catacomb.
@Marcus not Pompeji..

Closer to Rome, in a way or 'Via' both cities are connected. Not the Via Appia though.

[Eisenwurst]

Nero's garage for his limo - chariot.

[Eisenwurst]

Ok. I'll take a stab at it. Serious guess. The Mithraeum ( I can't spell ) at Ostia.

[Jimbuna]

Ardeatine Caves?

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by eisenwurst

Ok. I'll take a stab at it. Serious guess. The Mithraeum ( I can't spell ) at Ostia.

That's it! Congratulations
Two other views:






https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraeum

The mithraeum at Ostia, the former port of Rome to the mediterranean sea before the Tiber changed its river bed and the harbour silted up long ago. Ostia is connected to Rome by a roman street called Via Ostiense, roughly 100 km away.

"Mithraeums" or Temples of Mithras can be found in many cities, one e.g. being in London
https://secretldn.com/roman-temple-l...eum-bloomberg/
(Whatever they did with the light here, Kitsch!)


The statue shows Mithras killing a bull. Mithras here may have been the persian/iranian god, or some roman adaption of said religion. The Mithras cult existed in its roman form from roughly 200 A.D to 500 A.D. and ebbed away with upcoming christianity. Not much is known, it was a secret cult with initiations and seven trials to master; written reports were forbidden and so nothing much has been found.

Mithraeum temples were created as caves since Mithras was said to have been born by a stone, also most certainly to keep the holy places hidden over the centuries.

The cape or tunic of Mithras has sometimes been found painted, showing some kind of a star map. The geographic north pole as well as the ecliptics have changed in the last thousands of years, so the north star has been different back then. The killing of the bull probably represents the changing away from the bull zodiac in the ecliptics.
Back then the world was accepted to be standing still and the center, while the rest was either fixed (stars) or turned around it (sun and planets). So a god able to move the fixed stars (in reality depending on the wobbling/precession of the earth) must indeed have looked almighty..

"Today we know that the earth rotates on its axis once a day, and revolves around the sun once a year. However, Greco-Roman astronomy at the time of the Mithraic mysteries was based on a so-called "geocentric" cosmology, according to which the earth was fixed and immovable at the center of the universe and everything went around it. In this cosmology ..."

If interested: http://www.mysterium.com/mithras.html

[Eisenwurst]

OK then.

Who's this famous military man???

A clue : - Staff Officer Rank.

More clues to follow.

@ Catfish. Have you actually been there ( Ostia )?? And Nero's Golden House?? If so WOW.

[Catfish]

Background pyramid? Foreground head of a bedouin?
Not TE El'Awrence of. A.?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Catfish

Background pyramid? Foreground head of a bedouin?
Not TE El'Awrence of. A.?

Well it certain;y ain't Bin Laden

[Eisenwurst]

Most definitely not Bin Laden, Jim.

Nor "El Orans" Lawrence of Arabia.

If I made the pic any bigger it would be a dead giveaway seeing as it's been plastered all over the net ( if you know where to look )

Another clue then:-

He died taking a great secret to the grave with him.

[Aktungbby]

british?