Sol Invictus

[xkatz]

Does anyone know much about this Roman deity and his worship?

 

[painted wolf]

I'm afraid I don't know anything beyond what Wiki says.

wa:do

 

[Quintessence]

Yeah, my area of greater mythological expertise is the Greek pantheon. It is similar in many respects to the Roman pantheon, but Sol Invictus does not, to my knowledge, have a correlative in Greek mythology. I have quite a bit to study yet, though.

 

[Sylvan]

The wikipedia article is very interesting, and is definitely informing the conversation I'm having in another thread about modernizing the gods.

This middle-eastern worship of big meteorites or other large stones is fascinating. Down to the Kaaba today.

 

[Stella Polaris]

Here's an article about him:
Christ, Constantine, Sol Invictus
http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/sol_invictus.htm
http://www.mindserpent.com/American_History/introduction/footnotes/ft_sol_invictus_001.html
http://www.livius.org/he-hg/heliogabalus/heliogabalus-religion.html

There's also a book --
The Cult of Sol Invictus By Gaston H. Halsberghe
You can view some of it on Google Books - The Cult of Sol Invictus - Gaston H. Halsberghe - Google Books
I'd say, that has the most info you'd find on him!

Also, if you research Mithras, there's an overlap.