Sol Invictus (the Unconquered Sun)
Roman Mithraic Mysteries · deity · roman imperial mithraism · Recorded classification
Sol (Sol Invictus) appears throughout Mithraic monuments as Mithras's companion: investing him, kneeling before him, and reclining with him at the cult banquet that the ritual meal of initiates re-enacted.
Domains
- the sun
Powers
- to share the banquet of the bull with Mithras
Relations
- companion: Mithras Tauroctonos (the Bull-Slayer)Sol and Mithras are allies and banquet-companions in the cult's reliefs.Manfred Clauss, The Roman Cult of Mithras: The God and his Mysteries, trans. Richard Gordon (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000). (secondary)
Sources
- Sol Invictus is the solar god who, in Mithraic iconography, allies and feasts with Mithras after the bull-slaying.: Manfred Clauss, The Roman Cult of Mithras: The God and his Mysteries, trans. Richard Gordon (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000). (secondary); M. J. Vermaseren, Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae (CIMRM), 2 vols. (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1956-1960). (secondary)