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B 36, The Blackstone. One reason Eila Gabbal might be a tough fit was that Rome already had a sun god.

One practically as old as the city itself. The sun god's soul was brought to Rome by the

Sabine King Titus Tadius. During his brief period of co-rule, with Rome's legendary founder, Romulus.

The gods later identification as sole indigies, marked his status is one of the indigenous gods of ancient Rome.

There's always been a lot of confusion in the relationship between Soul Indigies, Ala Gabbal, and the later Soul Invictus.

Conventional scholarship has worship of Soul Indigies dying out in the early empire and Aila Gabbal somehow paving the way for a new Syrian

son god named Soul Invictus particularly under the Roman Emperor Aralian, which on the surface has always

seemed pretty dubious. I mean, you're going to learn this episode just how popular

a la gabal was in Rome. The idea that he laid the groundwork for soul and

victus is a pretty tough cell.

Don't get me wrong, Aurelian definitely believed that Sol Invictus helped him defeat

Zenobia, and afterwards he did visit the temple of Elagabal. So there's some kind of

linkage there. And believe me, we'll cover all this in excruciating detail in the upcoming final story arc.

But the idea of Elagabal, or even another Syrian Sun God,

being welcomed back as the supreme deity of Rome? I'm sorry but I just

don't see it. There is, an alternate theory.

Based on research performed in the 1990s by Professor Stephen Hidgemans,

rumors of the death of soul indigies may be greatly exaggerated.

Iconographic sources, like coins, reliefs, and frescoes, show that soul maintained a constant presence all down through Roman history.

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