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 | | Scholarly opinion differs on the interpretation of the phrase "native SunSol indiges" which occurs in few ancient Roman texts, inasmuch as the Romans could well have designated the Sun as their national god, though in actuality it was an imported deity. | | | The identification and worship of the Emperor as Sun-god, encouraged by the Eastern theology of the "King-Sun," and by political considerations, undoubtedly contributed to the diffusion of a public Sun-cult. | | | Gaston H. Halsberghe in his recent monograph The Cult of Sd Invictus, already cited, similarly concludes: "The authors whom we consulted on this point are unanimous in admitting the influence of the pagan celebration held in honor of Deus Sol Invictus on the 25th of December, the Natalis Jnvicti, on the Christian celebration of Christmas. |
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| | And this claim has been recently followed up by an article by a young Dutchman, S.J. Hijmans, "The sun which did not rise in the East: the cult of Sol Invictus in the light of non-literary evidence", BABESCH (Bulletin Antieke Beschaving) 71 81996)115-50. | | | According to the sources I've investigated so far, Mithraists equated Mithras with the Unconquerable Sun, but also sometimes identified the deity as an "ally" of Mithras. | | | This is mainly because of the furious obfuscation about his early life thrown up by Christian hagiography, esp. the Life by Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea (ca AD 260-340). |
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| | Sol Invictus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Unlike the earlier, agrarian cult of Sol Indiges ("the sun in-the-earth"), the title Deus Sol Invictus was formed by analogy with the imperial titulature pius felix invictus ("dutiful, fortunate, unconquered"). | | | Before his supposed conversion (some think Emperor Constantine never converted but that a Christian coup took advantage of his death), on his deathbed, even the young Constantine portrayed Sol Invictus on his official coinage. | | | Festival of the birth of the Unconquered Sun |
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| | After his conversion to Christianity on his death bed however the cult of Sol Invictus slowly faded and made way for Christianity. | | | Under the Severans this eastern variant of Sol was given a much more prominent place in the state religion. | | | The teenage emperor Elagabalus believed Sol Invictvs to be THE supreme deity but the notion of a single supreme deity was still quite alien in Roman religion. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Helios |
| | On the Quirinalis, he was worshipped as Sol Indiges. | | | But by Hellenistic times Apollo had become closely connected with the sun religiously. | | | Jump to: navigation, search Syncretism is the attempt to reconcile disparate, even opposing, beliefs and to meld practices of various schools of thought. |
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| | Sol -- Compton's Desk Reference - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer! |
| | The original Sol, or Sol Indiges, had an annual sacrifice and shrines on the Quirinal and in the Circus Maximus. | | | The worship of Sol remained the chief imperial cult until the rise of Christianity. | | | After the importation of various Syrian sun cults, Elagabalus built a temple to Sol Invictus on the Palatine and attempted to make his worship the principal religion at Rome. |
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| | As such, although Sol Invictus was directly identified with the physical Sun Helios or Sol Indiges, He was the source of all life, and as such His concept also included all the Syrian Baals. | | | This has the consequence that whoever attempts to revive the cult must perform extensive research on all these aspects in order to recreate all this sincretism almost from scratch. | | | The new official religion was well received by mithraists who identified him with their God. |
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| | After his death, Aeneas was recognized as the god Indiges. | | | He was possibly worshipped as Sol Indiges in his temple on the Quirinalis. | | | The Di Indigetes (the plural of Indiges) were a group of gods whose... |
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| | His self-proclaimed mission was to make his jealous god (who by this time had acquired the epithet Sol Invictus) supersede not only the gods of Rome, but also those of the whole of the rest of the world, including Jehovah. | | | The Syrians called their Sun god Elagabalus, and his most renowned shrine was at located at Emesa, the home of a very special stone that was believed to be a manifestation of the deity in the physical, Earthly world. | | | His every whim became a reality, no matter how lunatic: he decided, for instance, that he would marry the goddess Minerva, and so ordered her statue to be brought to him from the Palladium. |
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| | the atrium this day in ancient history feature: sol indiges |
| | We know that Sol Indiges was some form of the Sun god, but after that we are 'in the dark', so to speak. | | | In regards to the epithet "Indiges", Scullard warns us of the controversy associated with what it means: "the Indigetes have been regarded as di minores (gods of limited function)", as 'native' (as opposed to foreign) gods, or as ancestral gods. | | | On Sol Indiges: H.H. Scullard, Festivals and Ceremonies of the Roman Republic (Ithaca, 1981), p 171. |
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| | AskWhy! on Constantine and the Conversion of Europe - Christianity Revealed |
| | Like many Christian converts, Constantine only espoused Christianity on his death bed in 337 AD when he finally accepted baptism, but by then he had united the worship of Sol Invictus and Christianity to strengthen his own hand. | | | Constantine was a follower of the Pagan “monotheism” centered on the sun as Apollo, Mithras or Sol Invictus, and he saw the Christian god as the same. | | | Thus it was that Christianity was added to the syncretized sun religion and its bishops even placed in charge of it. |
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| | In Roman mythology, Indiges referred to the hero Aeneas after he was deified (after dying). | | | On this interpretation, which is the most obvious and natural one, the Indigenous Sun (Sol Indiges) is analogous to the Indigenous Jupiter (Jupiter Indiges), who had a sacred grove in Latium near the river Numicius, and whom Roman mythologists afterwards identified with the deified Aeneas. | | | The meaning of the epithet "Indiges" here applied to the Sun is ambiguous and has been variously interpreted by modern scholars. |
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| | Sol -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The original Sol, or Sol Indiges, had a shrine on the Quirinal, an annual sacrifice on August 9, and another shrine, together with Luna, the moon goddess, in the Circus Maximus. | | | Although the cult appears to have been native, the Roman poets equated him with the Greek sun god Helios. | | | Sol and Mani were sister and brother, and both were fair and beautiful. |
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| | The Pagan Left: 08/09/05 |
| | This day is sacred to Sol Indiges, the solar deity. | | | This is one of the dies comitiales when committees of citizens could vote on political or criminal matters. | | | A public sacrifice was made by the priests on the Quirinal. |
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| | Is December 25th Special? |
| | The spread of the Sol Invictus cult in the Empire led to the decline of the original Roman sun god, Sol Indiges. | | | Sol Invictus was also identified with, but not the same as, Mithras. | | | Early Christian writers recorded that this cult practiced a form of baptism and a ceremonial meal and complained that the cult was stealing Christian ideas. |
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| | Gens Ambrosia :: Mithras |
| | Gens Aurelia had traditionally worshipped a native Roman god, Sol Indiges. | | | Ultimately, the cult of Sol Invictus became identified with the cult of Mithras. | | | The Emperor Aurelian promoted the worship of his Syrian equivalent, Sol Invictus, the Unconquered Sun. |
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| | By the second century BC the Roman sun-god Sol, probably the old Italian Sol Indiges, was represented in a quadriga. | | | 25, which had been chosen for the feast of the sol invictus, because it was the time when the victory of light over darkness begins to be apparent in the lengthening of the day. | | | Although it is the sun chariot and the solar disc that are most often found on rocks and in caves, the first traces of an anthropomorphic representation of the sun deity have also been found there. |
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| | Indiges Roman mythology Aeneas |
| | In Roman mythology, Indiges referred to the hero Aeneas after he was deified (after dying). | | | Faunalia to Faunus 9 - Opalia to Ops 11 - Agonium to Janus, Agonalia to Sol Indiges 13 - Sementivae to Tellus 15 - Consualia to Consus 17 - Saturnalia to Saturn begins 18 - Saturnalia to Saturn continues 19... | | | It honors Janus, Liber Pater, Vediovius, and Sol Indiges, respectively. |
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| | The Sun: A Historical View and some Facts |
| | Among all these, Sol was the old italian sungod, Sol Indiges, or Sol Invictus, and had its place in the roman calendar of feasts. | | | Later on, Sol, was indentified with the greek sungod Helios who rode across the sky from morning to evening in his carriage pulled by seven snowwhite horses, and each had eight legs. | | | Sol in the norse mythology was a goddess, the Moon's sister, riding across the sky in her sun carriage pulled by two horses, Árvakr (the vigilant) and Alsvinnr (the fastest). |
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| | Among the Italic peoples he was called SOL INDIGES (the Native Sun) and SOL INVICTVS (the Unconquered Sun), whose cultus became most prominent under Aurelian, a generation after the Roman Millennium. | | | Another important Roman Festival, dedicated to SOL INDIGES, is 9 August (V*ID*AVG). | | | The site had already been a sacred enclosure or grove associated with the God. |
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| | Indiges (in this way, the God is honoured with traditional chariot | | | During all campaign he showed his devotion to the | | | Invictus was also called "Mithras" may sugest that the date was also the |
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| | Festival of Sol Indiges (August 9) |
| | The name of Sol Indiges suggests that he was a native god, or ancestral god, not to be confused with Sol Invictus, a Syrian import of the late 3rd century. | | | It's easy to see the natural power of Sol Indiges to attract worship in the summer heat. | | | He had a shrine at Lavinium long before he became identified with the Greek Helios or Phoebus Apollo. |
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| | Mystery Religions - Christianity Revealed - AskWhy! Publications |
| | The Roman pantheon of Jupiter, Mars, Janus, Quirinus and Vesta, with the addition of Sol Indiges provided the principles of decent living and brotherly duty to the citizens of Rome and opportunities for worship, but provided no satisfactory concept of life after death, or of the Absolute. | | | Soldiers in the early period of Christianity preferred Mithraism to Christianity since it postulated a supreme Lord of Light opposed by a Supreme Lord of Darkness, Ahriman. | | | War gods besides Mithras were: Mars, Hercules, Sol Invictus and Jupiter Dolichenus. |
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| | Under the name of Sol Indiges ("the indigenous Sol"), he had a temple on the Quirinal hill in Rome. | | | The festival of Sol Indiges was observed on August 9. | | | During the period of the Empire, the worship of Syrian sun deities were incorporated in a new Sol Invictus ("the unconquered Sol"). |
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| | Gmane -- Mail To News And Back Again |
| | Venus baptized Aeneas washing all his mortal parts away, and giving him the name 'Sol Indiges' a name that means "born of the sun". | | | This would make him an angel - after Uriel? | | | Anchises was a founder of Troy whom married Venus and gave birth to a divine son. |
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| | A different god seems to have been honored on each occasion: Janus, Liber Pater, possibly Vediovis and Sol Indiges. | | | On each occasion the rex sacrorum sacrified a ram at the Regia in Rome, but otherwise the method of celebration is unknown. |
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| | Here's a partial list to give an idea of the diversity of deities honored in August: Spes, Victoria, Salus, Sol Indiges, Hercules Invictus, Venus Victrix, Diana, Vertumnus, Fortuna Equestris, Castor and Pollux, the Camenae, Flora, Portunus, Consus, Volcanus, Luna, Ops, and Volturnus. | | | Similar priests were appointed to oversee the worship of other emperors after their demise and deification: Flavii, Hadrianales, Aeliani, and Antonini, for example. | | | You might want to check This Day in Ancient History at The Atrium on a daily basis for more information. |
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| | Pantheist, Polytheist: This day is sacred to Sol Indiges, the solar deity. | | | The priests on the Quirinal made a public sacrifice. | | | Observed by Lutherans on the sixth Sunday after Epiphany |
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