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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.
Traditionally, scholars have considered Sol Indiges [c] to represent an earlier, more agrarian form in which the Roman god Sol was worshipped, and considered him to be very different from the late Roman Sol Invictus, who they believed was a predominantly Syrian deity. Neither the epithet "indiges" (which fell out of use sometime after Caesar ...
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Aurelian was a reformer, and settled many important functions of the imperial apparatus, dealing with the economy and religion. He restored many public buildings, reorganized the management of the food reserves, set fixed prices for the most important goods, and prosecuted misconduct by the public officers. [48]
Sol Invictus is a Roman god identified with Sol (the solar deity in Ancient Roman religion). Sol Invictus may also refer to: Sol Invictus (band), an English neofolk band; Sol Invictus, a 2015 album by Faith No More; Sol Invictus (Akhenaton album) , 2001; Sol Invictus (holiday), a religious holiday celebrated in ancient Rome
A marble monument dedicated to Sol Invictus by Marcus Aurelius Stertinius, procurator of the camp, and two of his brothers-in-arms. Probably third century; from the collection of the Walters Art Museum. The gens Stertinia was a plebeian family of ancient Rome.
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In 1987, Read joined Tony Wakeford's Sol Invictus along with Karl Blake. [2] Read recorded three albums and an EP with Sol Invictus before leaving to form the band Fire + Ice in 1991. [3] Ian Read founded an all traditional folk band named Figg's Academy that played a couple of gigs, notably in 2008 at the Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig.