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You most likely did not descend from people who worshipped the sun, just people who used the sun in art and recognized its benefits to them. There were deities
by 1123581321 4y ago
You most likely did not descend from people who worshipped the sun, just people who used the sun in art and recognized its benefits to them.
There were deities associated with the sun. Sol Invictus is the most commonly known, but was a relatively late addition to the Roman pantheon, intentionally appropriated from traditions from Syria and elevated by the empire for what they perceived to be civic benefit. Hardly traditional, but perhaps an early example of bureaucrats recognizing the value of a tradition they did not personally respect.
- LAC-Tech 4y agoThe idea of Sol as a Syrian god has been challenged recently: It was long thought that Sol Invictus was a Syrian sun-god, and that Aurelian imported his cult into Rome after he had vanquished Zenobia and captured Palmyra. This sun-god, it was postulated, differed fundamentally from the old Roman sungod Sol Indiges, whose cult had long since disappeared from Rome. Scholars thus tended to postulate a hiatus in the first centuries of imperial rule during which there was little or no cult of the sun in Rome. Recent studies, however, have shown that Aurelian’s Sol Invictus was neither new nor foreign, and that the cult of the sun was maintained in Rome without interruption from the city’s earliest history until the demise of Roman religion(s). This continuity of the Roman cult of Sol sheds a new light on the evidence for priests and temples of Sol in Rome. http://romanrepublic.org/roma/wp-content/uploads/attachments/Temples%20of%20Sol%20in%20Rome.pdf http://romanrepublic.org/roma/wp-content/uploads/attachments...
- 1123581321 4y agoInteresting! Thank you.
- klyrs 4y ago> You most likely did not descend from people who worshipped the sun, just people who used the sun in art and recognized its benefits to them. a. You don't know my parents, don't be so sure. b. You're right, I should have gone with "washing hands before surgery" to avoid these low-effort rebuttals.
- 1123581321 4y agoBoy. :) a) Yes, I understand you are a specific person, not a statistical average. b) I'm sorry you didn't find the bit of flavor I added to the thread interesting and wish you hadn't felt attacked by it.
- klyrs 4y agoAll in good fun, I didn't feel attacked :)
- 1123581321 4y agoWhew! That's good to hear. Yes, all fun. :)