Peter_Novak
Quantum Scribe
Sol Invictus: the Roman Empire’s Sun God, the object of worship during the Roman Empire’s Sun Worship phase. Sol Invictus was the state-supported Sun God. His cult festival day was on December 25th.
Sol Invictus was originally Syrian Sun God, and when Syrian Elagabalus became Roman Emperor in 222, he brought his Sol Invictus with him to Rome. Upon Elagabalus’ death, Sol Invictus reverted to being just a Syrian god again, until 270, when Emperor Aurelian reintroduced Sol Invictus to Rome, making the sun-god the premier divinity of the empire and wearing his rayed crown himself. The worship of Sol Invictus was continued by Constantine.
In 273 AD Aurelian brought the worship of Baal, from Syria, back to Rome, and combined the worship of all the pagan sun gods into one "Sol Invictus." The popular cults of Apollo and Mithras started to merge into the syncretic cult of Sol Invictus, and in 274 CE the emperor Aurelian made worship of Sol Invictus official.
The cult of Sol Invictus grew stronger and stronger, overshadowing and absorbing other gods. Constantine even seemed to attempt to blend and merge Sol Invictus with Christ. Constantine was not, contrary to popular belief and tradition, converted to Christianity prior to the Battle of Milvian Bridge in AD 312. Historical evidence indicates, instead, that Constantin was initiated into the cult of Sol Invictus just prior to this battle. His vision was not of a Christian cross, but of the sun god Sol Invictus, according to a witness accompanying his army at the time. This vision occurred in the area of a pagan temple to Apollo. About the time of the issuing of the first Sunday law, AD 321, Constantine had some coins made; and according to Stanley's " History of the Eastern Church," " his coins bore on the one side the letters of the name of Christ, on the other the figure of the sun- god and the inscription, 'Sol invictus' [the unconquerable sun], as if he could not bear to relinquish the patronage of the bright luminary.
Sol Invictus / Sun God / Ada Sunstorm
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Sol Invictus was originally Syrian Sun God, and when Syrian Elagabalus became Roman Emperor in 222, he brought his Sol Invictus with him to Rome. Upon Elagabalus’ death, Sol Invictus reverted to being just a Syrian god again, until 270, when Emperor Aurelian reintroduced Sol Invictus to Rome, making the sun-god the premier divinity of the empire and wearing his rayed crown himself. The worship of Sol Invictus was continued by Constantine.
In 273 AD Aurelian brought the worship of Baal, from Syria, back to Rome, and combined the worship of all the pagan sun gods into one "Sol Invictus." The popular cults of Apollo and Mithras started to merge into the syncretic cult of Sol Invictus, and in 274 CE the emperor Aurelian made worship of Sol Invictus official.
The cult of Sol Invictus grew stronger and stronger, overshadowing and absorbing other gods. Constantine even seemed to attempt to blend and merge Sol Invictus with Christ. Constantine was not, contrary to popular belief and tradition, converted to Christianity prior to the Battle of Milvian Bridge in AD 312. Historical evidence indicates, instead, that Constantin was initiated into the cult of Sol Invictus just prior to this battle. His vision was not of a Christian cross, but of the sun god Sol Invictus, according to a witness accompanying his army at the time. This vision occurred in the area of a pagan temple to Apollo. About the time of the issuing of the first Sunday law, AD 321, Constantine had some coins made; and according to Stanley's " History of the Eastern Church," " his coins bore on the one side the letters of the name of Christ, on the other the figure of the sun- god and the inscription, 'Sol invictus' [the unconquerable sun], as if he could not bear to relinquish the patronage of the bright luminary.
Sol Invictus / Sun God / Ada Sunstorm
http://www.conspiracycafe.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=18898&pid=110773&st=36&#entry110773