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Jupiter Ammon, Jupiter equated with the Egyptian deity Amun after the Roman conquest of Egypt. Jupiter Brixianus, Jupiter equated with the local god of the town of Brescia in Cisalpine Gaul (modern North Italy). Jupiter Capitolinus, also Jupiter Optimus Maximus, venerated throughout the Roman Empire at sites with a Capitol .
Jupiter Ammon, depicted in a terracotta fragment. A fossil ammonite, showing its horn-like spiral. Ammon, eventually Amon-Ra, was a deity in the Egyptian pantheon whose popularity grew over the years, until growing into a monotheistic religion in a way similar to the proposal that the Judeo-Christian-Islamic deity evolved out of the Ancient Semitic pantheon. [2]
Hermanubis – A Greco-Egyptian god who was a syncretism from Hermes and Anubis [98] Hermes Trismegistus – A Greco-Egyptian god and legendary author of the Hermetica who was a syncretism from Hermes and Thoth [99] Heru-Khu – A god in the fifth division of Duat [39] Hery-sha-duat – A Duat god in charge of the fields of Duat [39]
Amun [a] was a major ancient Egyptian deity who appears as a member of the Hermopolitan Ogdoad.Amun was attested from the Old Kingdom together with his wife Amunet.His oracle in Siwa Oasis, located in Western Egypt near the Libyan Desert, remained the only oracle of Amun throughout. [3]
Jupiter Ammon, a combination of Amun and the Roman god Jupiter. Under the Greek Ptolemaic Dynasty and then Roman rule, Greeks and Romans introduced their own deities to Egypt. These newcomers equated the Egyptian gods with their own, as part of the Greco-Roman tradition of interpretatio graeca. [243]
Juno, goddess of the sky, queen of the gods, and Jupiter's wife, equivalent to the Greek Hera; Jupiter, king of heaven and god of the sky and weather, equivalent to the Greek Zeus; Luna, moon goddess; Nox, Roman version of Nyx, night goddess and mother of Discordia; Sol, sun god; Summanus, god of nocturnal thunder/lightning
Jupiter, ancient Roman sky deity, and Thetis. In comparative mythology, sky father is a term for a recurring concept in polytheistic religions of a sky god who is addressed as a "father", often the father of a pantheon and is often either a reigning or former King of the Gods.
Also notable are the associations of the planets with deities in Sumerian religion, and hence in Babylonian and Greco-Roman religion, viz. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Gods, goddesses, and demons may also be considered personifications of astronomical phenomena such as lunar eclipses, planetary alignments, and apparent ...