- This article is about the Roman sun god. For the Norse sun goddess of the same name, see Sól.
Sol was the
solar deity in
Ancient Roman religion. It was long thought that Rome actually had two different, consecutive sun gods. The first,
Sol Indiges, was thought to have been unimportant, disappearing altogether at an early period. Only in the late
Roman Empire, scholars argued, did solar cult re-appear with the arrival in Rome of the Syrian
Sol Invictus, perhaps under the influence of the
Mithraic mysteries.
