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Huh never seen it spelled that way, takes me back to the History of Rome podcast days

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus

https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/the_history_of_rome/201...

> Elagabalus's family held hereditary rights to the priesthood of the sun god Elagabal [...] The god was later imported to Rome and assimilated with the sun god [...] In Greek, the sun god is Helios, hence Elagabal was later known as "Heliogabalus", a hybrid of "Helios" and "Elagabalus".

Gibbon spells it as Elagabalus too.

Gibbon was probably the primary source for much of HoR

Though definitely a major influence, Duncan describes reading through the work as a child, I don't think it was his primary source. He had learned enough about history to doubt Gibbon, and tried to read available primary sources as much as he could.

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