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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).
"Iarbas was the first being begotten, that he was born in the parched plain, and that he seized (to feed) the sweet acorn of Jupiter."- Plutarch [2] In Roman mythology and Libyan mythology, Iarbas was the son of Jupiter-Hammon (Hammon was a North African god associated by the Romans with Jupiter, and known for his oracle) and a Garamantian nymph.
A diagram in Johannes Kamateros' 12th century Compendium of Astrology shows the Sun represented by the circle with a ray, Jupiter by the letter zeta (the initial of Zeus, Jupiter's counterpart in Greek mythology), Mars by a shield crossed by a spear, and the remaining classical planets by symbols resembling the modern ones, without the cross ...
The Romans regarded Jupiter as the equivalent of the Greek Zeus, [12] and in Latin literature and Roman art, the myths and iconography of Zeus are adapted under the name Jupiter. In the Greek-influenced tradition, Jupiter was the brother of Neptune and Pluto , the Roman equivalents of Poseidon and Hades respectively.
For instance, for a large portion of names ending in -s, the oblique stem and therefore the English adjective changes the -s to a -d, -t, or -r, as in Mars–Martian, Pallas–Palladian and Ceres–Cererian; [note 1] occasionally an -n has been lost historically from the nominative form, and reappears in the oblique and therefore in the English ...
Look up to the sky Wednesday morning and you'll see what astronomers call a planetary conjunction as Jupiter and Mars appear to be close together.
Similarly in Rome, Jupiter was the supreme ruler of the heavens and god of thunder, represented on earth by the rex, king (later the rex sacrorum) and his substitute, the Flamen Dialis, the legal aspect of sovereignty being incarnated also by Dius Fidius, Mars was the god of military prowess and a war deity, represented by his flamen Martialis ...
With Mars conjunct Jupiter in Gemini and your 12th house of privacy and unconscious patterns, you may feel a strong urge to explore your inner world and engage in healing practices, as it marks a ...