Sol Invictus (the Unconquered Sun)

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)

Sources

• Manfred Clauss, The Roman Cult of Mithras: The God and his Mysteries, trans. Richard Gordon (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000).
• M. J. Vermaseren, Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae (CIMRM), 2 vols. (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1956-1960).