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Today, August 9, marks the ancient Roman religious festival of Sol Indiges. This was a very ancient festival, likely seeking the blessing of the sun upon the crops and relief from excessive heat.
The meaning of the epithet "indiges" remains ambiguous, but is generally taken to indicate that the Sol to which the title applies is a native Italic deity, differentiated from both Apollo and Sol Invictus.
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Image information:
Central image: "Mosaique El Jem Ali Slama." A 3rd century CE Roman mosaic from Tunsia. Photo by Cimoi. Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosaique_El_Jem_Ali_Slama.jpg Image license: GNU Free Documentation License,
Background: Texture background by Annie Spratt: https://unsplash.com/photos/kG-ZwDuQ8ME Image licence: https://unsplash.com/license
Remix: I cropped the image from the mosaic and applied a sharpening filter. I applied gold star elements from Pixler X to, and tinted several shades of blue over, the original background image.
[Image description: The central figure has fair, curly hair and wears a reddish brown mantle pinned at the right shoulder over a light brown tunic. The figure's head is haloed by five golden rays. This figure is centered in an off-white circle surrounded by a gold and light brown braid which, in turn, is surrounded by an off-white circle.]
Why I shouldn’t watch Star Trek with my classicist hat on: “Rome had no sun worshippers”
This is, obviously, lies. Sol Indiges, the native sun, Sol Invictus, the Unconquered Sun, Helius, Apollo, these were all solar divinities. It’s a pretty common belief in academia that the feast of Sol Invictus, celebrated on the 25th of December, was syncretised with Christianity to produce Christmas. In the later empire, Sol Invictus was a pretty major deity, especially under the Aurelians, who heavily identified with him.
And in conclusion, this is why we shouldn’t take our knowledge of Roman culture from Bones’ spotty recollection of Earth history.