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His sacred tree was the oak. The Romans regarded Jupiter as the equivalent of the Greek Zeus, [20] 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 ...
The World Tree is often identified with the Tree of Life, [4] and also fulfills the role of an axis mundi, that is, a centre or axis of the world. [5][3] It is also located at the center of the world and represents order and harmony of the cosmos. [6] According to Loreta Senkute, each part of the tree corresponds to one of the three spheres of ...
Oak tree and linden tree: Zeus Once Hermes and Zeus looked for worthy men among a village, and only an elderly couple, Baucis and Philemon, welcomed them and gave them food. For this, upon their deaths, Zeus turned them into trees, an oak and a linden respectively, while he destroyed the rest of the impious village. Calamus ("reed") Water reed ...
There is evidence of Zeus being worshipped as a solar god in the Aegean island of Amorgos, based on a lacunose inscription Ζεὺς Ἥλ[ιο]ς ("Zeus the Sun"), meaning sun elements of Zeus's worship could be as early as the fifth century BC. [371] The Cretan Zeus Tallaios had solar elements to his cult. "Talos" was the local equivalent of ...
Yes. Dodona (/ doʊˈdoʊnə /; Doric Greek: Δωδώνα, romanized: Dōdṓnā, Ionic and Attic Greek: Δωδώνη, [1] Dōdṓnē) in Epirus in northwestern Greece was the oldest Hellenic oracle, possibly dating to the 2nd millennium BCE according to Herodotus. The earliest accounts in Homer describe Dodona as an oracle of Zeus.
Trees are significant in many of the world's mythologies, and have been given deep and sacred meanings throughout the ages. Human beings, observing the growth and death of trees, and the annual death and revival of their foliage, [1][2] have often seen them as powerful symbols of growth, death and rebirth. Evergreen trees, which largely stay ...
Δρυάς) is a tree nymph or tree spirit in Greek mythology; Drys (δρῦς) signifies "oak" in Greek. Dryads were originally considered the nymphs of oak trees specifically, but the term has evolved towards tree nymphs in general. [1] Often their life force was connected to the tree in which they resided and they were usually found in ...
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Perun. In Slavic mythology, Perun (Cyrillic: Перун) is the highest god of the pantheon and the god of sky, thunder, lightning, storms, rain, law, war, fertility and oak trees. [2] His other attributes were fire, mountains, wind, iris, eagle, firmament (in Indo-European languages, this was joined with ...