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Sol Invictus (other)
Sol Invictus is a Roman god identified with Sol (the solar deity in Ancient Roman religion). Sol Invictus may also refer to: *Sol Invictus (band), an English neofolk band *Sol Invictus (album), ''Sol Invictus'' (album), a 2015 album by Faith No More *french: :fr:Sol Invictus (album), Sol Invictus (album), a 2001 album by Akhenaton *Sol Invictus (holiday), a religious holiday celebrated by The Satanic Temple See also *Augustus Sol Invictus (born c. 1983), former Libertarian, alt-right Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Florida *Elagabalus (deity), a Syrian sun god *Mithraism *Sol (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sol Invictus
Sol Invictus (, "Unconquered Sun"), sometimes simply known as Helios, was long considered to be the official sun god of the later Roman Empire. In recent years, however, the scholarly community has become divided on Sol between traditionalists and a growing group of revisionists. In the traditional view, ''Sol Invictus'' was the second of two entirely different sun gods in Rome. The first of these, ''Sol Indiges'', or ''Sol'', was an early Roman deity of minor importance whose cult had petered out by the first century AD. ''Sol Invictus'', on the other hand, was a Syrian sun god whose cult was first promoted in Rome under Elagabalus, without success. Some fifty years later, on 25 December AD 274, the Roman emperor Aurelian did succeed to establish the cult of ''Sol Invictus'' as an official religion, alongside the traditional Roman cults. Although the Syrian origin of Sol Invictus is undisputed in the traditional view, there has never been consensus on ''which'' Syrian solar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
