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The numerous epithets of Jupiter indicate the importance and variety of the god's functions in ancient Roman religion. Capitoline cult ...
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A statue of Summanus stood on the roof of the Temple of Capitoline Jupiter, and Iuppiter Summanus is one of the epithets of Jupiter. [215] Dumézil sees the opposition Dius Fidius versus Summanus as complementary, interpreting it as typical to the inherent ambiguity of the sovereign god exemplified by that of Mitra and Varuna in Vedic religion ...
Epithets of Jupiter (11 P) P. ... (1 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Jupiter (god)" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. ... Wikipedia® is a ...
Pater was found as an epithet of Dis, Jupiter, Mars, and Liber, among others. Magna Mater "The Great Mother" was a title given to Cybele in her Roman cult.
Juno Regina is perhaps the epithet most fraught with questions. While some scholars maintain she was known as such at Rome since the most ancient times as paredra (consort) of Jupiter in the Capitoline Triad [72] others think she is a new acquisition introduced to Rome after her evocatio from Veii. [73]
Jupiter Dolichenus was always addressed in full as Jupiter Optimus Maximus Dolichenus, in Latin epigraphical dative case abbreviated 'IOM Dolicheno', or 'Iovi Optimo Maximo Dolicheno' in full. 'Optimus Maximus', meaning 'Best and Greatest', was the stock epithet of Jupiter , with whom Jupiter Dolichenus was co-identified and for whom the term ...
The most constant epithet associated with *Dyēus is "father" (*ph₂tḗr). The term "Father Dyēus" was inherited in the Vedic Dyáuṣ Pitṛ́, Greek Zeus Patēr, Illyrian Dei-pátrous, Roman Jupiter (* Djous patēr), even in the form of "dad" or "papa" in the Scythian Papaios for Zeus, or the Palaic expression Tiyaz papaz. [17]