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The Roman Gods had great influence in every sphere of society. From entreating divine inspiration at the highest levels of government to performing rituals honoring tutelary deities who assisted with the practical needs of everyday life, worship was a foundation of Roman existence.
Mythopedia is the ultimate online resource for exploring ancient mythology; from the Greeks and Romans, to Celtic, Norse, Egyptian and more.
Pantheon of gods and goddesses who held sway over ancient Rome. The Roman Gods had great influence in every sphere of society. From entreating divine inspiration at the highest levels of government to performing rituals honoring tutelary deities who assisted with the practical needs of everyday life, worship was a foundation of Roman existence.
Japanese gods and goddesses include everyone from powerful creator gods to minor, localized kami. Particularly notable is the sun goddess Amaterasu, held to be the divine ancestor of the first emperor of Japan, a lineage that remains unbroken into the current day.
Discovered in 1930 by the American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, Pluto resides in the Kuiper Belt at the edge of the solar system beyond Neptune. The name “Pluto” was suggested Venetia Burney, an eleven-year-old Roman mythology. The board members of the Lowell Observatory then selected it from a list of names that also included Minerva and Cronus.
The Norse gods and goddesses are the array of deities honored by ancient Nordic worshipers. They primarily came from two different tribes, the Aesir and the Vanir, but were united in their efforts to fight the jötnar, a tribe of giants dwelling in another realm of the world tree Yggdrasil.
The most ancient gods of the Greeks, born at the beginning of the cosmos. The Greek primordial gods were the first beings to populate the cosmos and gave birth to all the subsequent gods, creatures, and mortals of Greek mythology. Two of these primordial gods, Gaia and Uranus, were the parents of the Titans and the grandparents of the Olympians.
Most of what is “Roman” about Roman myth centers on quasi-historical figures such as Romulus and Remus, who had relatively little to do with the gods. From the earliest stages of Roman history, the genealogy, attributes, and stories of Jupiter were heavily influenced by the mythology of the Greek Zeus, until the two gods became all but ...
Ancient Roman texts are considered classics of Western culture, and were written by Rome’s greatest tacticians, playwrights, poets, and scholars. These texts include Virgil’s The Aeneid, an epic poem describing the mythical origins of the Roman people, as well as works by Ovid, Apuleius, and Cicero.
The Titans were ancient gods of Greek mythology —children of Uranus and Gaia who dominated the cosmos before the Olympians. Cronus, the youngest Titan, became the ruler of the gods after he usurped his father Uranus. Fearing a similar fate, Cronus swallowed each of his children as soon as they were born in order to maintain his power.