Heliogabalus

• “Avitus Bassianus, known as Heliogabalus, a name he assumed, reigned 218-222.”

  A Source Book for Ancient Church History

• “Sun called Heliogabalus and adored under the form of a black stone, 775-l.”

  Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

• “John ZornZorn has taken his music on a numerological and symbolical journey into the occult in recent years with albums such as IAO: Music in Sacred Light or the barnstorming Six Litanies for Heliogabalus.”

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• “At another banquet Heliogabalus almost smothered his guests by raining down perfumed rose petals over them.”

  Forbes: The Biggest Feasts Ever

• “In the 3rd century, Heliogabalus, renowned for enjoying cruel jokes, served up grains of gold mixed in with the peas, and amethysts, rubies and pearls in other dishes.”

  Forbes: The Biggest Feasts Ever

• “His book was about a Roman Emperor originally from Syria named Heliogabalus, also called the Crowned Anarchist, because of his subsequent reign in Rome.”

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• “The villainy of slaves is a direct product of the despot; a miasma exhales from these cowering consciences wherein the master is reflected; public powers are unclean; hearts are small; consciences are dull, souls are like vermin; thus it is under Caracalla, thus it is under Commodus, thus it is under Heliogabalus, while, from the”

  Les Miserables

• “Mirabeau424 declares that pederasty was reglementée and adds, Le goût des pédérastes, quoique moins en vogue que du temps de Henri III. (the French Heliogabalus), sous le règne desquel les hommes se provoquaient mutuellement425 sous les portiques du”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Heliogabalus seem only to have amused, instead of disgusting, the”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Heliogabalus, or Elagabalus as he is also called, is indeed a prime example in the category of Roman decadence, along with other notorious emperors such as Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.”

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