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This article is about the Roman sun god. For the Norse sun goddess, see Sól (Norse mythology).

Sol is the Roman god of the sun.

The worship of Sol was introduced to the Romans by Titus Tatius. It is believed the Roman pantheon had two sun gods. The worship of the first (Sol Indiges, the native sun), eventually died out, whereas the cult of the second (Sol Invictus, the invincible sun), was reinvigorated by the Emperor Aurelian. The namesake god of Emperor Elagabalus was later assimilated into the cult of Sol. As the Greek name of Sol was Helios, an alternative form of Elagabalus was Heliogabalus.

Mythology[]

Etymology[]

The name Sol evoluves from the Proto-Indo-European Word Seh₂ul, for that motif the latin word sol is cognitive with the germanic word Sól.

Eye of Jove[]

Sol like other Indo-European solar deities has the work of being the "eye" of his King of the Gods, so Sol was who watching others in the sky via his chariot, with the purpose of maintain order and justice.

Sol Invictus[]

Sol invictus or "Unconquered Sun" in english was a regional epithet for Sol in the region of Emesa or Palmyra in Syria, the cult of Sol Invictus was important in Syria until the abolition of classical Roman religion under Theodosius I.

The December 25th was a festival for Sol Invictus during the pagan rome, due to that on those dates were important because for the association of the new sun which gave way to spring and by extention harvest season, however was reemplace by Christmas, under the religious reform of Constantine the Great.

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