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	My Evil Fren: Elagabalus
		Elagabalus was the son of Sextus Varius Marcellus and Julia Soaemias Bassiana.
		Elagabalus declared the date of the victory at Antioch to be the beginning of his reign and assumed the imperial titles without prior Senatorial approval, which violated tradition but was a common practice among 2nd century emperors nonetheless.
		Elagabalus was delayed in Asia Minor while brief revolts by the Legio III Gallica, under the leadership of the senator Verus, and the IV Scythica, under command of Gellius Maximus, were crushed.
	myevilfren.blogspot.com /2006/09/elagabalus.html (2645 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Sol Invictus
		Sol Invictus ("the undefeated Sun") or, more fully, Deus Sol Invictus ("the undefeated sun god") was a religious title applied to at least three distinct divinities during the later Roman Empire; El Gabal, Mithras, and Sol.
		During the reign of Constantine the coinage ceases to be pagan in 325, and Sol Invictus disappears with the rest at that date.
		The religion of Sol Invictus continued to be part of the state religion until paganism was abolished by decree of Theodosius I on February 27, 390.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Sol_Invictus (827 words)

	Sol Invictus Summary
		Sol was equated with Mithra, and as Sol Invictus Mithra was regarded as the most powerful and most immediate divine mediator between humans and the invisible majesty of the supreme god.
		Thus Sol Invictus was the natural associate of the emperor, who ruled the earth as the vicegerent of the supreme god.
		Gaston H. Halsberghe's Cult of Sol Invictus (Leiden, 1972), edited by Maarten J. Vermaseren as volume 23 of "Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'empire romain," is an uncritical collection of evidence and is to be used with caution.
	www.bookrags.com /Sol_Invictus (1510 words)

	SolInvictvs
		Mithras was born of the Earth in the shade of a sacred tree beside a sacred stream holding a knife and a torch.
		Constantine was the personification of Deus Sol Invictus on earth, and he built a statue of himself with a crown of solar rays and holding a thunderbolt.
		Sol Invictvs is usually depicted on coins as a youth wearing a radiate crown and cloak, holding a globe (symbolizing the world) and whip (used to drive the sun chariot).
	www.xs4all.nl /~sp88k/Coin/Traveler/Deities/SolInvictvs.htm (1120 words)

	Sol Invictus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sol Invictus ("the unconquered sun") or, more fully, Deus Sol Invictus ("the unconquered sun god") was a religious title applied to three distinct divinities during the later Roman Empire.
		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").
		The religion of Sol Invictus continued to be a cornerstone of the emperors until Theodosius I's decree on Feb 27, 390 that only Nicene Christianity was acceptable.
	88.208.194.172 /wiki/index.php/Sol_Invictus (812 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Elagabalus
		Elagabalus the emperor was a high-priest of this deity, and his active promotion of the god was among several actions that made him an object of scorn and ridicule among the Roman aristocracy.
		Elagabalus could still count on the unqualified support of his mother, Julia Soaemias, but he increasingly refused to have contact with his grandmother, with Alexander or with their advisors.
		Elagabalus is best understood as a teenager who was raised near the luxury of the imperial court and who then suffered a drastic change of fortune brought about by the sudden deaths -- probably within one year -- of his father, his grandfather and his cousin, the emperor Caracalla.
	www.roman-emperors.org /elagabal.htm (1200 words)

	Elagabalus - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Elagabalus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		His original name was Varius Avitus Bassianus, but was named Elagabalus after the Sun god Elah-Gabal (the Greek Helios), whose priest he became while still a child.
		Owing to the intrigues of his grandmother Julia Maesa, he was proclaimed emperor 218 and his position was secured when the emperor Macrinus was assassinated.
		Elagabalus appears to have been deranged, and devoted his reign almost solely to the promulgation of his own worship.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Elagabalus (123 words)

	Sol Invictus
		The religion of Sol Invictus continued to be part of the state religion until paganism was abolished by the decree of Theodosius I decree on February 27, 390.
		Christianity adopted some of the attributes of the Sol Invictus religion, as apparent in the first examples of Christian iconography, depicting Jesus Christ with solar attributes such as the radiated crown or, in a few instances, a solar chariot.
		Sol Invictus had been adopted by the Church of Rome, as evidenced by Christ depicted as Apollo-Helios in a mausoleum discovered under St. Peter's Basilica and dated to 250
	www.christmas.craftsart.net /Sol_Invictus.html (890 words)

	Detail Page
		Sol Invictus was a Syrian sun deity whose cult spread across the empire beginning in the second century, leading to the decline of the traditional cult of Sol in Rome and Italy.
		Elagabalus attempted to establish Sol Invictus Elagabal as the supreme Roman god and built two temples to Sol Invictus Elagabalus in Rome; one was on the Palatine Hill and the other on the outskirts of the city.
		The sun god (as Deus Sol Invictus) was established as a supreme Roman deity by the emperor Aurelian in the late third century.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=RREL1252 (460 words)

	Lampridius: The Life of Heliogabalus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As the hereditary priest of Elagabalus, the patron-deity of Emesa, he was called by the name of his god, but this name was never official, and there is no evidence that it was applied to him during his lifetime.
		Elagabalus also sacrificed human victims, and for this purpose he collected from the whole of Italy children of noble birth and beautiful appearance, whose fathers and mothers were alive, intending, I suppose, that the sorrow, if suffered by two parents, should be all the greater.
		And the first measure enacted after the death of Antoninus Elagabalus provided that no woman should ever enter the senate, and that whoever should cause a woman to enter, his life should be declared doomed and forfeited to the kingdom of the dead.
	members.aol.com /heliogabby/bio/eng.htm (10331 words)

	Meteorite Coins - Midwest Meteorman
		Elagabalus eventually alienated the establishment with his religious practices and sexual habits, and the Praetorian Guard killed him and Soaemias.
		Elagabalus was born Varius Avitus Bassianus in AD 203 or 204 at Emesa in Syria.
		Elagabalus, who was only fourteen years old, was secretly taken to the camp of the Legio III 'Gallica' at Raphaneae and at the dawn of 16 May AD 218 he was presented to the troops by their commander Publius Valerius Comazon.
	www.meteorman.org /Meteorite_Coin.htm (2327 words)

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		Born in 203 as Varius Avitus Bassianus Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Elagabalus was and is one of the most controversial Roman emperors.
		Elagabalus supplanted Jupiter as the head of the Roman pantheon in favor of a new god, Deus Sol Invictus.
		Elagabalus and his mother were murdered the evening of 11 March 222.
	www.poseidoncoincompany.com /elagabalus.html (255 words)

	Sol and Oriens on Roman Coins
		Sol as a deity was well known throughout the ancient world, probably because of the famour Colossus of Rhodes, a giant statue of Sol.
		Sol was always shown with a radiate crown, the spikes representing the rays of the sun.
		Sol is active and restless, he can't be contained by the exergue line below him, and his head and hand thrust vigorously through the legend.
	www.forumancientcoins.com /moonmoth/reverse_sol.html (1963 words)

	the Missalette of Fortune: Solar Monotheismn, an essay by Alec Way
		Sol Invictus was a mirror image of the religion of Mithra, or Mithraism, surviving but reformed in the religion-in-exile, Zoroastrianism.
		Sol Invictus is traced back to Emesa; a city now called Homs in Western Syria.
		Sol Invictus/Mithraism was big with the military and remained so despite the fact that the Roman aristocracy at the time hated the monotheistic cult and its god-king, the Syrian youth Aurelius.
	www.cubby.net /missalette/missalette12/solarmono.html (9300 words)

	FAQ
		It was the emperor Aurelian in AD 270-75 who pushed this development to its furthest point by elevating Sol Invictus to the rank of the official head of the pantheon in place of Iuppiter Optimus Maximus and even creating a parallel set of pontifices.
		The figure of Sol with radiate crown appears on coins from Commodus, but is increasingly common from the mid-third century, just as the empire collapsed into internal chaos.
		Constantine’s emphasis on Sol invictus was thus only to be expected at this date; and, if we can believe Eusebius’ description of what Constantine saw at the Milvian Bridge, it was closely connected with light, even if he interpreted it (later?) in specifically Christian terms.
	www.clas.canterbury.ac.nz /ejms/faq.htm (2656 words)

	Astrological Musings: Astrology that expands the mind
		During the later Roman Empire, the Emperor Aurelian introduced the official cult of Sol Invictus which honored the sun-god as the primary divinity of the entire empire.
		Indeed, the resemblances are so striking in that all of the Christian mysteries were known nearly five hundred years before the birth of Christ that later church fathers claimed that Satan had created all of this prior to Christ's birth so as to confuse the laity.
		The Festival of the Sol Invictus was first celebrated on December 25 under the reign of Emperor Elagabalus (218-222) but popularized under Aurelian (270-274).
	astrodynamics.blogspot.com /2006/12/happy-sol-invictus.html (512 words)

	Sol Invictus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sol Invictus festival ran from December 22 through December 25.
		Eradicating the remnants of this much-celebrated pagan holiday is likely the reason why Christmas was picked by the early Catholic leaders as the birthday of Jesus Christ.
		His chosen, the Solar Exalted, are the default protagonists of the setting.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sol_Invictus (992 words)

	Sol Invictus
		The emperor Aurelian introduced an official religion of Sol Invictus in AD 270, making the sun-god the premier divinity of the empire, and wearing his rayed crown himself (image, right).
		Aurelian dedicated the Sol Invictus Temple on Dec 25, 274 in a festival called dies natalis Solis Invicti or birthday of the invincible Sun.
		It is conjectured to have been promoted by Aurelian as a means of linking this rebirth with the perpetual renewal of the Roman Empire.
	socialiste.forumactif.com /sutra39155-Sol-Invictus.htm (676 words)

	Invictus777.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		An ancient god of Mesopotamian origin, he was introduced (c.220) into Roman religion as Sol Invictus by emperor Heliogabalus.
		The Cult of Sol Invictus The Roman Empire began their official recognition of sun worship during the time of Aurelian when he instituted the cult of "Sol Invictus".
		His coins were inscribed: "SOL INVICTO COMITI", which is interpreted as "Committed to the Invincible Sun".
	www.invictus777.com /aboutsolinvictus.html (2875 words)

	m3C102
		The Romans worshiped Mithra, the sun god, often calling him "Sol Invictus Mithra", which is "the Invincible Sun Mithra." During the early Christian Era, Mithraism was one of the two primary pagan religions of the Roman Empire.
		While Mithraism was mostly a private, though pervasive, cult, the religion of "Sol Invictus Elagabal" or "the Invincible Sun Elagabal" was predominately a public and well funded cult.
		During the rule of Emperor Elagabalus (note the name), in AD 218-222, "Sol Invictus Elagabal" was made the official religion of the whole empire.
	www.sabbath-day.com /m3C102.html (1196 words)

	The Invisible Basilica: The Thelemic Clergy of E.G.C.
		The Emperor Elagabalus (218-222 e.v.) established the solar Baal worship of his native Syria as the imperial cult within the Roman pagan milieu.
		The cult of Elagabalus was short lived, but the main feature, the henotheistic idea of all the diverse gods subordinate to a supreme solar Deity, was resurrected by the Emperor Aurelian (270-274 e.v.) and merged with the Mithraic religion as the imperial cult of the Deus Sol Invictus.
		The Sol Invictus cult was very syncretistic, and incorporated elements of most of the various religions of the Roman Empire of the time, including Christianity.
	www.hermetic.com /sabazius/clergy_egc.htm (2505 words)

	Heliogabalus
		Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, better known as Heliogabalus or Elagabalus, (born around 203, died March 11, 222) was a Roman emperor of the Severan dynasty who reigned from 218-222.
		In 220, having settled in Rome, Heliogabalus attempted to make this deity the supreme god of the Empire under the name Deus Sol Invictus ("God the Invincible Sun").
		Heliogabalus is best known for the acts of debauchery that were supposed to have characterised his regime.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/el/Elagabalus.html (458 words)

	Forum Romanum
		During the sack of Palmyra, the temple of Sol Invictus
		Sol Invictus a Roman flavour (and not the oriental liturgy of
		This identification of Christ with Sol Invictus was mainly due to the
	www.novaroma.org /forum/mainlist/2000/2000-12-25.html (919 words)

	Sol Invictus - the imperial sun cult
		sol, inquit, immo ipse etiam deus de caelo spectat nec contaminatur.
		No public works of his are in existence, save the temple of the god Elagabalus (called by some the Sun, by others Jupiter), the Amphitheatre as restored after its destruction by fire, and the public bath in the Vicus Sulpicius, begun by Antoninus, the son of Severus.
		Sol iste corporeus, quem corpus non esse arbitrantur --- usque adeo nec quid sit corpus intellegunt, qui de spiritalibus disputationibus se fallaciter iactant --- sol ergo iste corporeus, tantum quia caeleste corpus est, illuminat terram nec ab ea ipse obscuratur;...
	www.tertullian.org /rpearse/sol_invictus.htm (9839 words)

	Rome, from Golden Age to Political Chaos
		Julia Maesa was from a Syrian family of high-priests that worshiped a Syrian sun god named Heliogabal, also known as Sol Invictus, and the emperor followed the family tradition and became a priest in the worship of Sol Invictus.
		He made Sol Invictus the official god of the empire, and he built a magnificent temple in Rome to the god.
		He replaced the office of Pontifex Maxiumus with a fellow priest of Sol Invictus, and he named himself Elagabalus after the god.
	www.fsmitha.com /h1/ch21.htm (7196 words)

	sol_invictus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Note how the Emperor (on the left) wears a radiated solar crown, worn also by the god (to the right).]]Sol Invictus ("the undefeated Sun") or, more fully, Deus Sol Invictus ("the undefeated sun god") was a religious title applied to at least three distinct divinities during the later Roman Empire; El Gabal, Mithras, and Sol.
		in his radiated solar crown, on a silvered bronze coin struck at Rome, 274-275]]The Roman gens Aurelia was associated with the cult of Sol.
		It is possible that he created the festival called dibs natalis Solis Invicti, "birthday of the undefeated Sun", which is recorded in 354 as celebrated on the 25th December; but no earlier reference to it exists.
	www.microsoft360.com /wiki/?title=Sol_Invictus (827 words)

	Aeqvitas Photos
		R: Elagabalus standing left over altar, holding club and patera, star in L field.
		R: Elagabalus in slow quadriga left holding branch and sceptre.PONTIF MAX TRPII COSII P P. Elagabalus --AE AS.
		The AETERNVM BENEFICIVM or Perpetual Benefaction commemorated by the rev. type apparently refers to an imperial gift of grain to the city, symbolized by the modius, with the promise that it would be repeated in the future.
	www.aeqvitas.com /photo.php?freeform=elagabalus (2550 words)

	Antoninus Elagabalus and his relationship with the Senate
		The victorious Elagabalus sent a letter to the Senate informing them of his intentions and insulting the memory of his predecessor, by talking about Macrinus’s lowly birth and the irony of the ex-emperor criticizing Elagabalus’s age while making his own five-year-old son a Caesar.
		On the subject of offices, Elagabalus, who had so eagerly criticized Macrinus for his lowly condition, surely angered the Senate by elevating some men to positions of power that their birth did not warrant.
		There was also the case of Zoticus, another “husband” of Elagabalus’s, whom he appointed cubicularius, which was not really an administrative post, but which could lead to appointments and favors for others through the influence the position entailed for the holder through the emperor.
	www.jerryfielden.com /essays/elagabalus.htm (791 words)

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