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Portunus was the ancient Roman god of keys, doors, livestock and ports. He may have originally protected the warehouses where grain was stored, but later became associated with ports, perhaps because of folk associations between porta "gate, door" and portus "harbor", the "gateway" to the sea, or because of an expansion in the meaning of portus ...
Portunus may be defined as a sort of duplication inside the scope of the powers and attributes of Janus. [231] His original definition shows he was the god of gates and doors and of harbours. In fact it is debated whether his original function was only that of god of gates and the function of god of harbours was a later addition: Paul the ...
In Greek mythology, Pontus (/ ˈ p ɒ n t ə s /; Ancient Greek: Πόντος, romanized: Póntos, lit. 'Sea') [ 1 ] was an ancient, pre-Olympian sea-god, one of the Greek primordial deities . Pontus was Gaia 's son and has no father; according to the Greek poet Hesiod , he was born without coupling, [ 2 ] though according to Hyginus , Pontus ...
The Temple of Portunus (Italian: Tempio di Portuno) is an ancient Roman temple in Rome, Italy. It was built beside the Forum Boarium , the Roman cattle market associated with Hercules , which was adjacent to Rome's oldest river port ( Portus Tiberinus ) and the oldest stone bridge across the Tiber River , the Pons Aemilius .
This is a list of agriculture gods and goddesses, gods whose tutelary specialty was agriculture, either of agriculture in general or of one or more specialties within the field.
A liminal deity is a god or goddess in mythology who presides over thresholds, gates, or doorways; "a crosser of boundaries". [1] These gods are believed to oversee a state of transition of some kind; such as, the old to the new, the unconscious to the conscious state, the familiar to the unknown.
Portunus is a genus of crabs which includes several important species for fisheries, such as the blue swimming crab and the Gazami crab. [3] Other species, such as the three-spotted crab are caught as bycatch .
The paramount identification in the Latin poets of the Augustan age is with Portunus, the Roman god of safe harbours, memorably in Virgil's Georgics. [6] Ovid twice told the story of Ino's sea-plunge with Melicertes in her arms. [7] Ovid's treatment in his Fasti is the earliest to identify the Isthmus as the location, though without literally ...