Sol Invictus’s Connections

About Sol Invictus →

Aspect of

• Sol

  Sol Invictus was the late imperial development of the ancient Roman Sol cult. Aurelian elevated Sol to supreme state deity in 274 CE, synthesizing native Italian sun worship with eastern solar theology into the cult of the Unconquered Sun.

Allied with

• Mithras

  After the tauroctony, Mithras and Sol Invictus sealed their pact by sharing a sacred banquet over the slain bull's hide, then ascended together in Sol's chariot — a partnership depicted in nearly every mithraeum as the culmination of the cosmic drama.