Sol Invictus

Subject: Sol Invictus
From: Haruo
Date: 05 Oct 00 - 03:33 PM

With Samhain upon us and Christmas right around the corner, I thought I should share this little song I made up, to give credit where credit is due, in honor of Sol Invictus, the solar deity who led the Roman Emperor Constantine to propose a corporate merger of Church and State, and who donated his birthday, 25 December (held in common with most other solar deities), to the Christian calendar:

Sol Invictus, Sol Invictus,
What a guy*, what a guy*!
Let's us use his birthday
To remember Jesus —
Thank you, Sol, thank you, Sol!

The tune is Frère Jacques

*I'm a Baptist; I sing "guy". You pagans may substitute "god". ;-)

Liland