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Jupiter Jehovah, syncretization between Jupiter and Jehovah (was named as El hashamayim by the hellenistic jews, which means "Lord of Heavens"). Jupiter Ladicus , Jupiter equated with a Celtiberian mountain-god and worshipped as the spirit of Mount Ladicus in Gallaecia , northwest Iberia, [ 161 ] preserved in the toponym Codos de Ladoco .
An attested cult epithet of Zeus is Aleios Zeus, or "Zeus the Sun," from the Doric form of Helios' name. [401] The inscribed base of Mammia's dedication to Helios and Zeus Meilichios, dating from the fourth or third century BC, is a fairly and unusually early evidence of the conjoint worship of Helios and Zeus. [ 402 ]
The association between the planet and the Greek deity Zeus was drawn from Near Eastern influences and was fully established by the fourth century BC, as documented in the Epinomis of Plato and his contemporaries. [235] The god Jupiter is the Roman counterpart of Zeus, and he is the principal god of Roman mythology.
Zeus (/ zj uː s /, Ancient Greek: Ζεύς) [a] is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus.. Zeus is the child of Cronus and Rhea, the youngest of his siblings to be born, though sometimes reckoned the eldest as the others required disgorging from Cronus's stomach.
Latobius, sky and mountain god equated with the Greek gods Zeus and Ares; Nuada, god of the sky, wind, and war; Sulis, goddess of the hot springs at Bath; probably originally the pan-Celtic sun goddess; Ambisagrus, Cisalpine god of rain, sky and hail equated to the Roman god Jupiter; Tuireann, Irish god of thunder and the sky, Gaulic name Taranis.
The daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. Her symbols include the Moon, horse, deer, hound, she-bear, snake, cypress tree, and bow and arrow. Ares: Mars: God of war, violence, bloodshed and manly virtues. The son of Zeus and Hera, all the other gods despised him except Aphrodite. His Latin name, Mars, gave us the word "martial".
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Scholars have found striking similarities between the mythological and religious terms used in different cultures of Europe and India. For example, the Greek sky-god Zeus Pater, the Roman sky-god Jupiter, and the Indian (Vedic) sky-god Dyauṣ Pitṛ have linguistically identical names.