According to the organization’s website, Sol Invictus is a “celebration of being unconquered by superstition and consistent in the pursuit of sharing knowledge,” and has its origins in the cult of Sol in pre-Christian Rome.
“This year’s tradition marks a greater urgency in the Baphomet’s message of harmony and reconciliation,” Satanic Temple’s director of campaign operations Erin Helian said in a statement, obtained by the State Journal-Register.
And let us not forget that Festivus (for the rest of us) is on December 23! I sure hope organizers plant a Festivus pole on the Capitol grounds at Springfield!