| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Planet name "Devapurohita" | Hindu / Puranic | Astral god. An epithet for the planet god JUPITER.... |
| God name "Dius Fidus" | Roman | God of oaths, åśśociated with Jupiter. Roman |
"Divus Pater Falacer" | Italian | An ancient and forgotten Italian divinity, considered to be the same as Jupiter. |
| God name "Dolichenus" | Western Semitic / Syrian | weather god. Depicted bearded and standing upon a bull. Attributes include a double ax and lightning. He became syncretized with the Roman god JUPITER.... |
| God name "Eacus" | Romano - Iberian | weather god. Known from the area of Castille and syncretized with the local Roman deity Jupiter Solutorius.... |
| Goddess name "Egeria" | Roman | Fertility goddess. deity of oak trees whose priestess enacted an annual sacred marriage with the king of Rome, who took the part of JUPITER. The festival is a variation of that celebrating the marriage of ZEUS and HERA which took place in Athens. A number of springs and lakes were sacred to her.... |
| Spirit name "Epimetheus" | Greek / Roman | Minor creator god. One of the four sons of IAPETOS and Klymene (Titan), and the brother of PROMETHEUS. Jointly responsible for the creation of mankind. Epimetheus' strongest claim to fame lies in his liaison with the first mortal woman, Pandora, whom the gods had cautioned him to avoid. Her curiosity caused her to open the box belonging to JUPITER in which he had placed all the vices, diseases and sufferings of humanity, but which also included the benevolent spirit of hope.... |
"Falacer" | Italian | An ancient and forgotten Italian divinity, considered to be the same as Jupiter. |
"Feretrius" | Roman | A surname of Jupiter, which is probably derived from ferire, to strike; for persons who took an oath called upon Jupiter, if they swore falsely, to strike them as they struck the victim they sacrificed to him. Roman |
"Fulgurator" | Roman | lightning Hurler. An epithet for Jupiter |
| God name "Fulminator" | Roman | A surname of the god Jupiter. |
| Planet name "Guth" | Roman | One of the angelic soldiers of the planet Jupiter. |
| God name "Hospitalis" | Roman | The guardian or protector of the law of hospitality, the title is applied to a distinct clåśś of gods, though their names are not mentioned. The great protector of hospitality was Jupiter, at Rome called Jupiter hospitalis. Roman |
"Hundred-eyed" | Greek | Argus, in Greek and Latin fable. Juno appointed him guardian of Io [the cow], but Jupiter caused him to be put to death, whereupon Juno transplanted his eyes into the tail of her peaçõçk. |
| God name "Jove" | Greek | He who thunders from on high, archaic latin for the father god, and is another name for Jupiter |
| Goddess name "Juno" | Roman | A Roman goddess of marriage and the long-suffering wife of Jupiter. Like her Greek equivalent, Hera, she was the protector of women, in particular married women. A festival took place in her honour on the calends (first) of March. Roman |
| Planet name "Jupiter" | Roman | Jupiter is, properly speaking, a derivation of Jove and pater (Latin for father) The name of the god was also adopted as the name of the planet Jupiter, and was the original namesake of the weekday that would come to be known in English as Thursday (the etymological root can be seen in French jeudi, from Jovis Dies). The Indo-European deity who also evolved into the Germanic Tiwaz (after whom Tuesday was named), the Greek Zeus, and Dyaus Pita of the Vedic religion. Jove is a vocative form of the name, evolved from Dyeus. Roman |
| Nymph name "Juturna" | Roman | Juterna, the nymph of a well in Latium, famous for its excellent healing qualities. She is said to have been beloved by Jupiter, who rewarded her with immortality and the rule over the waters. Arnobius calls her the wife of Jåñuś and mother of Fontus, but in the Aeneid she appears as the affectionate sister of Turnus. Roman |
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