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Mars Corotiacus is an equestrian Mars attested only on a votive from Martlesham in Suffolk. [168] A bronze statuette depicts him as a cavalryman, armed and riding a horse which tramples a prostrate enemy beneath its hooves. [169] Mars Lenus, or more often Lenus Mars, had a major healing cult at the capital of the Treveri (present-day Trier).
A daughter of Saturn and Ops, she was the sister and wife of Jupiter and the mother of Mars, Vulcan, Bellona, Lucina and Juventas. Like Hera, her sacred animal was the peacock. [1] Her Etruscan counterpart was Uni, and she was said to also watch over the women of Rome. [2]
Ignoring parental advice to curb her tongue, she betrays Jupiter's secret, adulterous affair with the nymph Juturna, wife of Janus, to his own wife, Juno. Jupiter wrenches out Lara's tongue and orders Mercury , psychopomp and god of boundaries and transitions, to conduct her to the "infernal marshes" of Avernus , the gateway to the Underworld ...
The mother of the Lares is addressed only as Matres Larum; she is given a sacrificial meal (cena matri Larum) of puls contained in a sacred, sun-dried earthenware pot . Prayers are recited over the pot, which is then thrown from the temple doorway, down the slope on which the temple stands; thus, remarks Lily Ross Taylor , [ 2 ] towards the ...
Since the year 2000, Jupiter and Mars have been in conjunction just 11 times, according to Space.com. After Wednesday morning, it won't be until Nov. 15, 2026 that they cross paths again.
Juturna was an ancient Latin deity of fountains, [3] who in some myths was turned by Jupiter into a water nymph – a Naiad – and given by him a sacred well in Lavinium, Latium, [4] as well as another one near the temple to Vesta in the Forum Romanum. Her original home was said to be on the mythological river Numicius. [2]
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The closest in the past 1,000 years was in 1761, when Mars and Jupiter appeared to the naked eye as a single bright object, according to Giorgini. Looking ahead, the year 2348 will be almost as close.