WebJupiter (Latin: Iūpiter or Iuppiter, from Proto-Italic *djous "day, sky" + *patēr "father", thus "sky father" Greek: Δίας or Ζεύς), also known as Jove (gen. Iovis), is the god of the sky and thunder, and king of the gods in ancient Roman religion and mythology.Jupiter was the chief deity of Roman state religion throughout the Republican and Imperial eras, until …

WebRoman mythology is the body of myths of ancient Rome as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans.One of a wide variety of genres of Roman folklore, Roman mythology may also refer to the modern study of these representations, and to the subject matter as represented in the literature and art of other cultures in any period. Roman …

WebJupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun. Jupiter is the third brightest natural object in the Earth's night sky after the Moon and Venus, and it has been …

WebJupiter is the northernmost town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. According to the 2020 Census, the town had a population of 61,047 as of April 1, 2020. ... The god Jupiter (or Zeus in the Greek mythology) is the chief Roman god, and the god of light, of the sky and weather, ...

WebJupiter, en latin Juppiter ou Iuppiter (génitif Jovis), est le dieu romain qui gouverne la terre et le ciel, ainsi que tous les êtres vivants s'y trouvant.Il est aussi le maître des autres dieux et est originellement un dieu du ciel, caractéristique que l'on retrouve dans son association aux présages célestes liés aux pratiques divinatoires des prêtres de Rome.

WebVenus (/ ˈ v iː n ə s /) is a Roman goddess, whose functions encompass love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory.In Roman mythology, she was the ancestor of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy and fled to Italy. Julius Caesar claimed her as his ancestor. Venus was central to many religious festivals, and …

WebChinese historian Xi Zezong claimed that the earliest record of a Jovian moon (Ganymede or Callisto) was a note by Chinese astronomer Gan De of an observation around 364 BC regarding a "reddish star". However, the first certain observations of Jupiter's satellites were those of Galileo Galilei in 1609. By January 1610, he had sighted the four massive …

WebSaturn (Latin: Sāturnus [saːˈtʊrnʊs]) was a god in ancient Roman religion, and a character in Roman mythology.He was described as a god of time, generation, dissolution, abundance, wealth, agriculture, periodic renewal and liberation. Saturn's mythological reign was depicted as a Golden Age of abundance and peace. After the Roman conquest of Greece, he was …

WebIn Greek mythology, Ganymede (/ ˈ ɡ æ n ɪ m iː d /) or Ganymedes (/ ɡ æ n ɪ ˈ m iː d iː z /; Ancient Greek: Γανυμήδης Ganymēdēs) is a divine hero whose homeland was Troy. Homer describes Ganymede as the most beautiful of mortals and tells the story of how he was abducted by the gods to serve as Zeus's cup-bearer in Olympus. [Ganymedes] was the …

WebName. Aurōra stems from Proto-Italic *ausōs, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h a éusōs, the "dawn" conceived as divine entity.It has cognates in the goddesses Ēṓs, Uṣas, Aušrinė, Auseklis and Ēastre.. Roman mythology. In Roman mythology, Aurōra renews herself every morning and flies across the sky, announcing the arrival of the Sun.Her …

WebCallisto is colonized in the 1950 short story "U-Turn" by Eric Frank Russell.The 1970s Callisto series by Lin Carter, starting with the 1972 novel Jandar of Callisto, is a planetary romance set on the satellite and an homage to the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs.. Other moons. Amalthea is a derelict extraterrestrial spaceship in the 1953 short story "Jupiter …

WebHe is the equivalent of Jupiter of Roman mythology who is the King of all other Gods. Nox is the Goddess of the night, the beginning of all things, and one of the oldest of the Gods. Umbria is Goddess of shadows, secrets, darkness who lives in the underworld. Cel is the Etruscan Goddess of earth. She was the mother of Giants, a race of great ...

WebIn classical Roman mythology, Jupiter is the ruler of the gods and their guardian and protector, and his symbol is the thunderbolt. The Romans believed that Jupiter granted them supremacy because they had honored him more than any other people had. Jupiter was "the fount of the auspices upon which the relationship of the city with the gods rested."

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