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The Syrian god of Elagabalus (1)

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03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery


 		Keywords
cults
Elagabalus
sun
Period
3rd century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Historia Augusta, Elagabalus 3.4-5:
As soon as he entered the city, however, neglecting all the affairs of the provinces, he established Elagabalus as the god on the Palatine Hill close to the imperial palace; and he built him a temple, to which he desired to transfer the emblem of the Great Mother, the fire of Vesta, the Palladium, the shields of the Salii, and all that Romans held sacred, purposing that no god might be worshipped at Rome save only Elagabalus. He declared, furthermore, that the religions of the Jews and the Samaritans and the rites of the Christians must also be transferred to this place, in order that the priesthood of Elagabalus might include the mysteries of every form of worship.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Historia Augusta, Elagabalus 3.4-5

Bibliography

Magie 1960, II 110-113Magie, David. Scriptores Historiae Augustae. 3 Vols. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, London: Heinemann 1960.

Amar Annus


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