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Jupiter was the Roman king of the gods and the god of the sky, equivalent to the Greek god Zeus. He is most often symbolized by the thunderbolt, and his sacred animal is the eagle.
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What sacred symbol did the Romans associate with Jupiter?
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What is to concecrate?
concecrate word is associate with the sacred
Why were cats sacred to ancient Romans?
Cats were not sacred to the ancient Romans, as they did not worship animals. You are confusing the Romans with the ancient Egyptians, who revered the cat.
What did the Romans believe their city was?
The Romans believed their city was sacred to the gods. The city itself was personified as the goddess, Roma. Her image is on many sculptural reliefs and coins.
Is Mount Vesuvius a famous volcano?
Mt. Vesuvius was sacred to Romans and Greeks because of Hercules/Heracles. Herculaneum was named after him. Mt. Vesuvius was sacred to Romans and Greeks because of Hercules/Heracles. Herculaneum was named after him.
What is the Mennonite sacred text?
The plain sects believe the entire Bible. That includes even the injunctions against "rounding the face" (shaving) and not taking the law against others, or fighting in war. They pay especially close attention to Romans 12, and especially Romans 12:2
Why is the god Zeus not named after a planet?
IN the night sky of the ancients, it didn't take long for them to realize that some of the stars didn't move in the night sky the same way as the others. Those "stars" were planets, and each of them (there were 5) were sacred to a different god or goddess. The fastest moving planet was sacred to Hermes. The birghtest and most beautiful was sacred to Aphrodite. The one with the reddish tint was sacred to Ares. The bright planet that dominated the night sky was sacred to Zeus and the slowest and dimmest to his long deposed father Kronos. When the Romans learned Astronomy, they learned it in Greek, and they just applied their Latin names to the gods. So, Hermes, Aphrodite, Ares, Zeus and Kronos became Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. When the other planets were discovered, they simply kept up with the same naming traditions.
Who was called Diana by the Romans?
Diana was the goddess of hunting, the moon and childbirth. She could talk to wild animals and was also a goddess of the woodland. Oak groves were sacred to her.
How did the Romans find out that the gauls were attacking?
If you mean the attack by the Gauls in 390 BC, it was because of the geese. The Gauls had quietly snuck up to the Capitoline Hill where the Romans were holed up and neither the sentinels nor the dogs heard them. It was the geese who were sacred to Juno who heard them and raised the alarm.
What is given under an oath to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
In modern law, those words, preceded by the words "I swear", indicate that the sworn testimony of a witness will follow. Taking oaths before something that is sacred to the witness is an ancient concept in law that has evolved from ancient times. People have have taken that type of oath since ancient times with their hand holding or resting on something sacred to them with their other hand raised. The sacred object lends a greater than usual care in doing one's duty by telling the truth although it is not required in modern times in many jurisdictions. Five hundred years before the common era the Romans swore oaths upon the Jupiter Stone in the Temple of Jupiter. Oaths are mentioned in the Old Testament. Therefore, they were already in existence at that time. The form mentioned in the question is the modern form.
What name did the Romans give to a priestess in the temple of vesta?
The Romans called a priestess in the temple of Vesta a "Vestal Virgin." These priestesses were tasked with keeping the sacred fire of Vesta burning and maintaining the purity of the temple.
Why are all planets named after the roman god of agriculture?
When the ancient people looked into the night sky, it would have been impossible for them not to notice that the planets not only rotated in the sky with the other stars, but that they also changed position every night. To them, these stars must have represented something more powerful, so they made them sacred to the gods they felt they represented. Later, when Rome came into prominence, they added the Greek's astronomical and astrological knowledge to their own, but replaced the Greek names with Latin ones. The fastest moving was made sacred to Hermes, and later named Mercury. The brightest and most beautiful was made sacred to Aphrodite. The Romans called it "Lucifer". Later it was named Venus, harkening back to the Greek roots. The red tinted one was made sacred to Ares and later named Mars. The one that dominated the night sky, and nearly as bright as Venus, was made sacred to Zeus, and later named Jupiter. The faint one that seemed to lope slowly across the sky, looking as if it were peering over Jupiter's shoulder, was made sacred to Kronos, and later named Saturn. Later astronomers, when they discovered the farther planets, kept with this tradition and named the planets after Greek or Roman mythological figures. The moons, asteroids and dwarf planets are bear names from mythology.
