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Sol is the personification of the Sun and a god in ancient Roman religion.It was long thought that Rome actually had two different, consecutive sun gods: The first, Sol Indiges (Latin: the deified sun), was thought to have been unimportant, disappearing altogether at an early period.
Sol Indiges is Pater Indiges, divus pater, i.e. Iuppiter Indiges, the highest divine power, the one which makes nature produce food. This impelling action seems close to Aja Ekapad and Savitr as variant terms for the sun in connection with other natural phenomena. [h]
Sol Invictus (Classical Latin: [ˈsoːɫ ɪnˈwɪktʊs], "Invincible Sun" or "Unconquered Sun") was the official sun god of the late Roman Empire and a later version of the god Sol. The emperor Aurelian revived his cult in 274 AD and promoted Sol Invictus as the chief god of the empire.
Scotus, god of darkness ; brother of Terra, lover of Nox and opposite Dis. Greek Erebos; deep, shadow and one of the primordial deities. Securitas, goddess of security, especially the security of the Roman empire. Senectus, god of old age. His Greek equivalent is Geras. Silvanus, god of woodlands and forests. Sol/Sol Invictus, sun god.
American theosophist Alvin Boyd Kuhn had postulated that Jesus or the Abrahamic God is a sun god, with other figures in the Old Testament such as Samson (whose name means "sun" in Hebrew), King David, Solomon, Saul (meaning soul, or sol, the sun), Abraham, Moses, Gideon and Jephtha also being solar allegories.
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The Egyptians portrayed the god Ra as being carried across the sky in a solar barque, accompanied by lesser gods, and to the Greeks, he was Helios, carried by a chariot drawn by fiery horses. From the reign of Elagabalus in the late Roman Empire the Sun's birthday was a holiday celebrated as Sol Invictus (literally "Unconquered Sun") soon after ...
There are a couple of points worth noting, that call into question some of the assertions in this article: The earliest dated mention of Sol Invictus is an inscription of AD 158, i.e. long before Elagabal. The location and some description of this AD 158 inscription will be essential, so that this assertion can be followed by by interested readers.