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For the folk music band, see Sol Invictus . , circa 280, with Sol
Invictus riding a quadriga, with legend SOLI INVICTO, "to the Unconquered
Sun". Note how the Emperor (on the left) wears a radiated solar crown, worn
also by the god (to the right).]]
Sol Invictus ("the Unconquered Sun") or, more fully, Deus Sol Invictus
("the Unconquered Sun God") was the late Roman state sun god. The cult was
created by the emperor Aurelian in 274 and continued until the abolition of
paganism under Theodosius I.
The title Sol Invictus was also applied to a number of other deities
before and during this period.
Use of the phrase Sol Invictus was a religious title applied to at least
three distinct divinities during the later Roman Empire: El Gabal, Mithras,
and Sol.
Unlike the earlier, agrarian cult of Sol Indiges ("the native sun" or "the
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