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  • “She was concentrating on the tablets found at the shrine to Sulis Minerva in Bath.”

    The Legacy Kirsten Tranter 2010

  • Sulis Minerva was one of those deities that Ingrid was interested in, a goddess that incorporated the Celtic Sulis with the Roman Minerva.

    The Legacy Kirsten Tranter 2010

  • The Yule log and colored light decorations which are today emblematic of Christmas are the same as were once lit in honor of Sulis, Sol, Sunna, the old Goddess of the Sun.

    Donna Henes: Festivals of Light in the Dark 2010

  • The Norse Eddas tell of the Goddess Sol, Sul, Sulis driving the chariot of the sun.

    Donna Henes: Celebrating the Solstice: Fiery Fetes of Summer 2010

  • The Yule log and colored light decorations which are today emblematic of Christmas are the same as were once lit in honor of Sulis, Sol, Sunna, the old Goddess of the Sun.

    Festivals of Light in the Dark 2010

  • The Yule log and colored light decorations which are today emblematic of Christmas are the same as were once lit in honor of Sulis, Sol, Sunna, the old Goddess of the Sun.

    Donna Henes: Festivals of Light in the Dark 2009

  • I wonder if some of them just turned into Romano-British priests in the same way that the British gods acquired double-barrelled Roman names - if Sulis can become Sulis Minerva, maybe the druid of the shrine could just change his robes and do the same?

    Lunar eclipses and the 'Dark Ages' Carla 2007

  • It is likely the site had been used previously as a shrine for the Celtic deity Sulis.

    See You at the Spa! 2000

  • Besides these country towns, Londinium (London) was a rich and important trading town, centre of the road system, and the seat of the finance officials of the province, as the remarkable objects discovered in it abundantly prove, while Aquae Sulis (Bath) was a spa provided with splendid baths, and a richly adorned temple of the native patron deity, Sul or Sulis, whom the Romans called Minerva.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

  • Spa at Bath (Aquae Sulis) contained a stately temple to Sul or Sulis

    The Romanization of Roman Britain 1889

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