Jupiter (Mythology)

Jupiter
Zeus
God of heaven, ruler of Olympus and the earth
Name in Latin	Jupiter, Jovis
Attribute (s)	Scepter, Lightning, Oak
Animal	Eagle
Residence	Mount Olympus
Equivalents	Zeus Taranis , Esus and Sucellos Thor Indra Re Baal
Hometown	Capitol
Family
Temple (s)
Capitoline temple of Jupiter in Rome
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Jupiter, Latin or is the Roman god who governs the earth and sky and all living things therein. It is also the father of the gods. He attributes to the eagle and the lightning (noun in this case). It is likened to Zeus for the Greeks and Dyaus Pitar among Hindus.

The name Jupiter is from the evolution of a compound noun (" " meaning "father Zeus"). The first part of the compound belongs to the family formed on dyew *, Indo-European root which is also formed on the Latin word dies. There are even Diespiter in Plautus and Varro to describe Jupiter .

Mythology

A difficult start

Jupiter, transformed into a bull, and Europe

Jupiter (or Zeus for the Greeks), the poets say, is the father of gods and men, it reigns over the Olympus , and with a nod shakes the universe. He is the son of Rhea and Saturn who devoured his children as they came to the world. Already Vesta , her eldest daughter, Ceres , Pluto , Neptune had been devoured, when Rhea, wanting to save her child, took refuge in Crete , in the den of Dictated, where she gave birth at the same time, Jupiter and Juno. It was devoured by Saturn. As for the young Jupiter, Rhea had him fed by Adrastea and Ida , two nymphs of Crete, which were called melissa, and recommended to his childhood Curetes , former inhabitants of the country. However, to deceive her husband, Rhea made her swallow a stone swaddled. The Jupiter melissa fed with the milk of the goat Amalthea and honey from Mount Ida in Crete.

As an adolescent, he joined the goddess Metis , that is to say Prudence. It was on the board of Mtis he did take a drink Saturn whose effect was to make him vomit the first stone he had swallowed, and then all children drowned in her womb.

With the help of his brothers, Neptune and Pluto, he first proposed to dethrone his father and ban Titans , the rival branch that blocked his kingship. They therefore declared war as well as Saturn. Earth's prediction was a complete victory, if he could deliver the Cyclops (one-eyed giants) and Hecatonchires (giants with a hundred arms and fifty heads) that his father was imprisoned in Tartarus , and urge them to fight for him. He undertook, and came to the end, after killing Camped , the jailer, who had custody of these giants in the Underworld.

Then the Cyclopes gave Zeus' thunderbolt compound of thunder, lightning and lightning, Pluto kune , and Neptune the trident. With these weapons, the three brothers defeated Saturn, drove him to the throne and the company of the gods, after having been subjected to cruel tortures. The Titans who had helped to fight Saturn were cast into the depths of Tartarus in the custody of Hecatonchires.

After this victory, the three brothers, finding themselves masters of the world, divided it between them: Jupiter took the sky, the sea Neptune, and Pluto the underworld.

But the war of the Titans followed the revolt of the giants , children of Heaven and Earth. In a monstrous size and proportionate force, they had legs and feet in a snake. Determined to dethrone Jupiter, they piled on Mount Ossa on Mount Pelion , and Olympus on Ossa where they tried to climb the sky. They threw rocks against the gods some of them, falling into the sea, became islands, and the others falling to the ground, forming mountains.

Jupiter and Thetis by Ingres (1811)

Jupiter was in great concern, because a former Oracle announced that the Giants would be invincible, unless the gods calling some fatal to their rescue. Having defended the Dawn , the Moon and Sun discover his designs, he outran the Earth seeking to rescue his children, and the advice of Pallas or Minerva , he sent Hercules who, together, with the other gods, helped exterminate the Giants Enceladus , Polybeta, Alcyone, Porphyrion, both aload Ephialtes and Otus, Eurytus, Clytius, Tityus, Pallas, Hippolytus, agrius, Thaon and the dreaded Typhon , who alone gave more trouble to the gods than any other. After having defeated the Jupiter rushed to the depths of Tartarus, or, according to other poets, he buried them alive, some in a country, others in another. Enceladus was buried under Mount Etna. It was he whose fiery breath, "said Virgil , breathes fire launched by the volcano when it tries to turn around, he shook Sicily, and a thick smoke obscures the atmosphere. Polybeta was buried under the island of Lango, Otus under the island of Candia, and Typhon under the island of Ischia.

Family

Relationships of Jupiter

(Latin / Greek)

• Son of Saturn / Cronus and Rhea
• Brother of Neptune / Poseidon
• Brother of Pluto / Hades
• Mari (infidel) of Juno / Hera
• Brother of Ceres / Demeter
• Brother of Vesta / Hestia

Love Relationships

With goddesses

With fatal

Emblems

• a flash

Attributes

• the scepter
• The Lightning beam dart zigzag representative
• the throne
• the eagle
• the oak

Favorite Animal

• the eagle was called "bird of Jupiter."

Field

He is the master of heaven, so check everything is related. He is the god of gods , so it controls.

Epithet

Bronze statue of Jupiter Stator, found at Gisacum.

There are many epithets of Jupiter, they are names that correspond to additional powers, actions

• Jupiter Caelestis ("heavenly")
• Jupiter Fulgurator ("Lightning")
• Jupiter Latarius ("God of Latium ")
• Jupiter Lucetius ("light")
• Jupiter Pluvius ("who sends the rain"), see also Pluvius
• Jupiter Stator (from stare meaning "standing")
• Jupiter Terminus or Jupiter Terminalus (defending the frontiers), see also Terminus
• Jupiter Toanes ("thunder")
• Jupiter Victor ("head of the Roman armies")
• Jupiter Summanus ("sending the thunder of the night")
• Jupiter Feretrius
• Jupiter Optimus Maximus (best and greatest)
• Jupiter Maximus Homoscus
• Latiaris Jupiter, worshiped on Mount Alban
• Capitoline Jupiter, worshiped on the Capitol in the Capitoline temple of Jupiter

Legend

When he married Juno, Jupiter invited to the wedding all the gods, all men and all animals. All guests came to the party, except a young girl named " Chelone. It dared to despise the orders of the king of the gods, going so far as to mock the divine marriage. She was well punished: Mercury Jupiter ordered to change into a turtle.

Worship

Among the gods, Jupiter still held the first rank, and his cult was the most solemn and most universally popular. His three most famous oracles were those of Dodona, Libya and Trophonius. The most common victims that he had sacrificed the goat, the sheep and the white bull which we had taken care to gild the horns. We do not sacrifice him human victims, often we simply offer the flour, salt and incense. The eagle, hovering in the heavens and back like lightning on her prey, was his favorite bird. On Thursday, the day of the week was dedicated to him

Temples

• The Capitol in Rome ( Capitoline Jupiter )

Priests

The Flamen of Jupiter was flamen dialis said.

Performance

In the fable, the name of Jupiter precedes that of many other gods, even of kings: Jupiter Ammon in Libya, Jupiter-Serapis in Egypt, Jupiter Belus in Assyria, Apis Jupiter, king of Argos, Jupiter Asterius king of Crete, etc..

Most commonly it is represented under the figure of a majestic man, with beard, thick hair, seated on a throne. Right hand he holds the lightning can be figured two ways: either by a flaming firebrand both ends, either by a sheaf of darts in a zigzag. The left hand he holds a Victory, and his feet is an eagle with outstretched wings, which removes Ganymede. The upper body is bare, and the lower part covered.

But this way to represent was not uniform. The imagination of the artist changed his image or statue, according to circumstances and the place where Jupiter was honored. The Cretans represented without ears, to show his impartiality, the Spartans, however, gave him four, to demonstrate he is able to hear all prayers. Next to Jupiter is often seen justice, the Graces and the Hours.

The statue of Zeus, by Phidias, was of gold and ivory: the god appeared seated on a throne, having on her head a crown of olive, holding his left hand a victory with gold and ivory , crowned and adorned with strips. From the right he held a scepter on the end of which rested an eagle shining in the brightness of all kinds of metals. The throne of the god was overlaid with gold and precious stones: the ivory and ebony are made by mixing them a nice variety. Everywhere around there were four victories that seemed to join hands to dance, and two feet of Jupiter. At the highest point of the throne, above the god's head had been placed on one side of the Graces, the Hours of the other, and each other as daughters of Zeus.

Equivalents

• the Etruscan god Tinia
• the Greek god Zeus (in Fulmen)
• Gallic gods Taranis (at Esses), Esus and Sucellos (at Maillet)
• the Germanic god Thor (the Hammer)
• the Indian god Indra (the Vazra)
• the Egyptian god Ra or Ra
• Carthaginian god Bhal
• the god of Christians for the Neoplatonists God. Source: Marsilio Ficino's "Platonic Theology of the immortality of souls."

External Links

• Representations of Jupiter on the coins of the Roman Empire

References

• Mythology portal
• Portal of the ancient world
• Italy portal
• Portal Roman mythology

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