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It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday!

Sol Invictus (#Helios) with a halo of sunlight and #Mithras (to his right) feast together.
Emperor Aurelian built a new temple for Sol, which was dedicated #OTD, 25 December 274 CE. The cult, like Mithraism, had been introduced from the East

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A marble relief showing a scene of offerings. At the bottom we seen an altar with a man holding a stick with a snake curled around it on the right. Left of the altar a man holding a stick or torch hands a drinking horn to Sol Invictus, seated in the sky, easily identified by his sunray crown. Beside him Mithras is seated, wearing a Phrygian cap. Both of them also hold a torch. In the top left corner a female figure is looking away from the scene to the left. She has a lunar crescent behind her shoulders, suggesting she is a moon goddess or Luna, Sol's sister.

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