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Venus Physica Pompeiana was Pompeii's protective goddess, antedating Sulla's imposition of a colonia named Colonia Veneria Cornelia after his family and Venus, following his siege and capture of Pompeii from the Samnites. Venus also had a distinctive, local form as Venus Pescatrice ("Venus the Fisher-woman") a goddess of the sea, and trade.
The English name of Venus was originally the ancient Roman name for it. Romans named Venus after their goddess of love, who in turn was based on the ancient Greek goddess of love Aphrodite, [271] who was herself based on the similar Sumerian religion goddess Inanna (which is Ishtar in Akkadian religion), all of whom were associated with the planet.
The Sumerians named the planet after the goddess Inanna, who was known as Ishtar by the later Akkadians and Babylonians. [1] She had a dual role as a goddess of both love and war, thereby representing a deity that presided over birth and death.
Inanna was associated with the planet Venus, which is named after her Roman equivalent. [41] [88] [41] Several hymns praise Inanna in her role as the goddess or personification of the planet Venus. [89] Theology professor Jeffrey Cooley has argued that, in many myths, Inanna's movements may correspond with the movements of Venus across the sky ...
The Maasai people named the planet Kileken, and have an oral tradition about it called The Orphan Boy. [81] Venus is important in many Australian aboriginal cultures, such as that of the Yolngu people in Northern Australia. The Yolngu gather after sunset to await the rising of Venus, which they call Barnumbirr. As she approaches, in the early ...
The Roman god of war is depicted as youthful and beardless, reflecting the influence of the Greek Ares. The nearest counterpart of Ares among the Roman gods is Mars , a son of Jupiter and Juno , pre-eminent among the Roman army's military gods but originally an agricultural deity. [ 134 ]
Cytherean valleys are called by the Latin term valles, and are named after river goddesses or after words for the planet Venus (including terms for the morning star or evening star specifically) in various languages.
Zababa was a war god who served as the tutelary deity of Kish. [159] His main temple was E-mete-ursag. [226] The earliest attestation of him comes from the Early Dynastic Period. [226] During the reign of Old Babylonian kings such as Hammurabi it was Zababa, rather than Ninurta, who was regarded as the primary war god. [227]