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Anne Ross associated Thincsus with a sculpture, also from the fort, which shows a god flanked by goddesses and accompanied by a goose – a frequent companion of war gods. [169] Mars Visucius. A fusion of Mars with the Celtic god Visucius. Mars Vorocius. A Celtic healer-god invoked at the curative spring shrine at Vichy as a curer of eye ...
Mars in Roman mythology was the God of War and patron of warriors. This symbol is also used in biology to describe the male sex, and in alchemy to symbolise the element iron which was considered to be dominated by Mars whose characteristic red colour is coincidentally due to iron oxide. [16] ♂ occupies Unicode position U+2642.
Under the influence of Greek culture, Mars was identified with Ares, [135] but the character and dignity of the two deities differed fundamentally. [136] [137] Mars was represented as a means to secure peace, and he was a father (pater) of the Roman people. [138] In one tradition, he fathered Romulus and Remus through his rape of Rhea Silvia.
The "Ares Program", a fictional NASA program of scientific missions to Mars, appeared in the 2011 novel The Martian by Andy Weir. [1] In Planet Comics there was a strip called Mars God of War, featuring a character based on Ares under his Roman alter ego Mars. This character was a villain who took over people's bodies in various attempts to ...
The Ludovisi Ares is an Antonine Roman marble sculpture of Ares, a fine 2nd-century copy of a late 4th-century BCE Greek original, associated with Scopas or Lysippus: [1] thus the Roman god of war receives his Greek name, Ares.
Mars: God of war, violence, bloodshed and manly virtues. The son of Zeus and Hera, all the other gods despised him except Aphrodite. His Latin name, Mars, gave us the word "martial". His symbols include the boar, serpent, dog, vulture, spear, and shield. Athena: Minerva: Goddess of wisdom, handicraft, and warfare. [28]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Mars has a nasty habit of living up to its mythological name and besting Earth when it comes to accepting visitors. Named for Roman god of war, Mars isn't very kind ...
Belatucadros, war god worshipped by soldiers and equated with the Roman war god Mars; Camulus, god of war of the Belgic Remi and British Trinovantes; Catubodua, Gaulish goddess assumed to be associated with victory; Caturix, god of war; Cicolluis, Gaulish and Irish god associated with war; Cocidius, Romano-British god associated with war ...