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Of all the divinities of the ancient mythology God Sol was the only one
distinguished by the exalted title of Lord or Lord God, for the reason
that he was made the organizer of chaos and governor of heaven and
earth. Hence, having constituted him the lord of light and darkness, as
well as good and evil, the ancient astrologers in composing the solar
fables made him say of himself, "I form the light and create darkness;
I make peace and create evil, I the Lord do all these things," Isaiah
xlv., 7. "Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done
it?" Amos iii., 6. Besides the title of Lord or Lord God, the solar
divinity is also designated in the allegories as the Lord of Lords and
the King of Kings, the Invincible, the Mighty God, etc.

Subjecting the mythical genius of the sun, in his apparent annual
revolution round the earth, to the four stages of human life from
infancy to old age, the ancient Magi fixed the natal day of the young
God Sol at the winter solstice, the Virgo of the Zodiac was made his
mother, and the constellation in conjunction with her, which is now
known as Bootes, but anciently called Arcturus, his foster father. He
is represented as holding in leash two hunting dogs and driving Ursa
Major, or the Great Bear, around the north pole, thus showing that the
original occupation of the celestial foster father of the young God Sol
was that of a bear driver, and that his sons, referred to in job
xxxviii., 32, are the dogs Asterion and Chara. It will be observed that
Virgo is represented in our illustration with a child in her arms, for
the reason that she is so represented in the ancient Zodiacs, and the
fact will be readily conceded that she is the only Virgin who could
give birth to a child and be a virgin still.