Happy Holidays

I’ve been looking for just the right xmas decorations and then I came across this: an original Roman soldier’s Sol Invictus ring. The Sol Invictus cult was a deity that Constantine pimped up in Rome as a final attempt at a compromise cult that would satisfy Christians, Mithraists, and old-school pagans. The Sol cult bequeathed many of the totems now taken as “Christian”: the cross as a religious symbol of triumph over adversity, Sunday as sacred, and most especially, a birth festival on December 25th (the “Festival of the Birth of the Unconquered Sun“). I do admire the early Roman cross motif though…

If I was feeling especially flush, I could splash out for this ceremonial Sol Invictus goblet, a veritable steal at only $35,000 or so.