- (/ˌɛləˈɡæbələs/), Aelagabalus, Heliogabalus, (/ˌhiːliəˈɡæbələs/) or
simply Elagabal (Aramaic: 𐡀𐡋𐡄𐡀𐡂𐡁𐡋 ʾĕlāhaʾgabāl) was an Arab-Roman sun god, initially...
-
Emesa (Homs), Syria,
where he
served as the head
priest of the sun god
Elagabal from a
young age.
After the
death of his cousin, the
emperor Caracalla...
- was
expanded and
rededicated to the god
Elagabal, the
patron deity of his
homeplace Emesa in Syria.
Elagabal was
personified by a
conical black stone...
- god he
might have been: some
scholars opted for the sky god of Emesa,
Elagabal,
while others preferred Malakbel of Palmyra. In the
revisionist view, there...
- name "Elagabalus"
followed the
Latin nomenclature for the
Syrian sun god
Elagabal, of whom he was a priest: 11 . At the age of 14, in 218,
Elagabalus was...
- With the
Judgement of God (1993)
Peace (1992) For
dagene er onde (1991)
Elagabal (Trøndelag Teater, 1989) Lars Øyno at IMDb
Grusomhetens Teater / The Theatre...
-
Emesene dynasty and
served as a high
priest to the
local cult of the sun god
Elagabal. Domna's
older sister,
Julia Maesa,
would become the
grandmother of the...
- as the
rightful heir to the empire. Elagabalus,
chief priest of the god
Elagabal, was
proclaimed emperor by the
soldiers of
Legio III
Gallica (Gallic Third...
- period, and may have been the
shrine briefly dedicated to the
Syrian god
Elagabal by the
emperor Elagabalus in the
third century CE.
Since the 1950s, the...
- century, it was
still celebrated in Emessa, Syria, in
honour of the god
Elagabal. The
Roman emperor Elagabalus (r. 218-222), who was of
Syrian origin, even...
