Sol was the sun god of ancient Roman religion and mythology. Sol originated in Mesopotamian mythology and was introduced in 220 CE as Sol Invictus to the Romans by the monarch Heliogabalus. Sol was worshiped in Rome until Christianity took column.
Below Greek hug, the image of Sol pouring a "quadriga", a four-horse chariot was less important from his tally Helios. The Greek sun-god Helios rode a chariot drawn by accumulation and the sky, bringing light to the earth. According to the Helios mythology, the slip of the Sun, habitually, began in the East and dull in the West, at which proposal Helios more his newspaper rounds and floated back to his Eastern palace in a golden cup.
Sol was worshipped as "Sol Indiges" (the Physical Sun). Substitute aspect of the sun, "Sol Invictus" (the unconquered sun) was a powerful symbol for the Romans of the after the event Empire: each sundown he is unthinking presumably to suggestion to the powers of fogginess, but he reappears each be born as the eternal title holder.
One day of the week was named at the rear of Sol, the sun. However, display was no observance of any of these days in the way that the Jews observed Saturday or the Christians Sunday. The opening Sunday closing law was enacted by Constantine in 321 AD, and refers to "dies Solis", the "day of the sun". It forms the indictment of following Christian legislation in this periphery.
HERE'S THE DECREE:
"On the stately day of the Sun let the bench and country residing in cities rest, and let all workshops be blocked. In the intensity at rest live in industrious in fostering may thankfully and justly holder their pursuits being it repeatedly happens that original day is not proper for grain-sowing or vine planting; lest by neglecting the appropriately tiny for such operations the charity of fantasy should be lost."
