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HELIOGABALUS

Heliogabalus, or Elagabalus was a Roman emperor. He was born in about 205 and died in 222. The son of Sextus Varius Marcellus he was originally called Varius Avitus Bassianus. He received his name from having been, while still a child, priest of Elagabalus, the Syro-Phoenician Sun-god. After the death of Macrinus he was invested, at the age of fourteen with the imperial purple, but his licentiousness soon displeased the populace, and he was killed in an insurrection of the praetorians after a reign of less than four years.
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ELAGABALUS

In Syrian and Phoenician mythology, Elagabalus was a sun god. He was represented as a huge conical stone.
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