#jove

[incorrectsmashbrosquotes]

I'm taking a Classics course this year and it's extremely funny to me that, while some versions do make Kronos into Greek-Satan, in most versions Zeus eventually just... like... releases Kronos after a few centuries.

It's like "Hey dad, yeah, you and the other Titans can come out now. I think ya'll've learned your lesson, just no more eating your kids, K?" And Kronos just... accepts his son's rule. It's honestly hilarious.

From a historical perspective it's meant to be reflective of the Athenian banishment system where you got to return after ten years or so, but it's also endlessly funny to me. Zeus just has his ex-con cannibal father puttering around occasionally offering advice and its usually terrible.

It's even funnier in Roman mythology because in that series of events Saturn (Roman Kronos) and the Titans go to Italy and rule over a Golden Age while making ready for Jupiter and the other Gods to come over with Aneas once the Trojan War is over.

So, I'm proposing an alternative version of Percy Jackson. While the Greeks were fighting the secondd Titan War, the Romans just have to like, settle a dispute between Jupiter and his geriatric father over some bullshit. It's be hilarious.

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[brimo5]

A silent comedy cartoon episode in which Hades spends all time with Zeus? I never imagined this to be real🤣🤣🤣

[moonyjumpers]

i present to youuuuuu:

Jupiter North

you can't tell me he's not a Jupiter variant/the most Jupiter thing outside of the fandom

(i do not own any of the pictures used, credits to all rightful owners)

[jovialturtleface]

Me when I'm tired

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[s-c-r-ee-ch]

Battle of the Gods against the Titans

From A Popular History of Greece (1887)

[Upon Juno's encouragement]: "When they (Titans) tried to mount heaven, Jove with the help of Minerva, Apollo, and Diana, cast them headlong into Tartarus. On Atlas, who had been their leader, he put the vault of the sky; even now he is said to hold up the sky on his shoulders.". — Hyginus, Fabulae 150

[cosmiicblink]

drawing of @copper-404 's guy, jove :]

[eaglewind13]

You ever just have a dream that inspires a character and then it spirals quickly out of control? Couldn't be me... Anyway's, here's Dr. Phillip Whittlepaw, his ex-wife Marissa Whittlepaw (her last name) and her new husband, Jove Whittlepaw (created by my partner @casual-necromancer ). There's a lot going on here but more will be revealed in time, for now, I just have a lot of art of cats!

[sarafangirlart]

She fights, however much a female can. (Juno, I wish you'd seen - you would be kinder.) She fights, but what man could a girl subdue, or who would conquer Jove? As victor, Jove returns to heaven. - Ov. Met. 2.471-5 myth of Callisto

Yeah I was kinda taken aback when I read this. Poor Callisto. I don’t think Hera would necessarily be “kinder” so to speak if she knew what happened to the women of Zeus’s “affairs” bc I think it’s more willful ignorance rather than actual ignorance bc the way a lot of these women behaved after their “fling” (like how Alcmene insisted that she didn’t know that was Zeus disguised as her husband) makes it undeniable that they didn’t consent to having a relationship with Zeus.

But this does remind me of how Hera appreciated Asteria and Thetis for rejecting Zeus. Well… technically for successfully rejecting Zeus.

[carneirodemercurio]

"Pro numinum vis summa, pro caelestium rector parensque, cuius excussis tremunt humana telis". Seneca. 'Cum tonas, Luceti, prae te tremunt' Highest of the divine powers, ruler and parent of the heavens, whose hurling lightning bolts make humans tremble' Seneca 'When you thunder, Jupiter, men tremble before you' Today I honour Jupiter Fulgur (Jupiter of the lighting). Quite aptly there are storms forecast for today. I have a severe storm phobia - so as well as my veneration today, I shall also be hoping that no thunderstorms come this way.

Polo máis alto dos poderes divinos, gobernante e pai dos ceos, cuxos raios lanzandos fan tremer aos humanos' Séneca "Cando tronas, Luceti (Xúpiter), os homes tremen ante ti" Hoxe honro a Xúpiter Fulgur (Xove dos lostregos). Moi axeitadamente hai previsións de treboadas. Teño unha fobia grande ás tormentas, así que, ademais das miñas veneracións, espero que non veñan treboadas por aquí hoxe.

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[brimo5]

Possibly Philostephanus was not far wrong, when he described Adonis as the son of Zeus and Zeus alone. Cook, A. B. (1903). Zeus, Jupiter and the Oak. The Classical Review, 17(3), 174–186.

Jackson, S. (1998). Callimachus’ Pupils and Adonis. Museum Helveticum, 55(1), 9–13.

Well… as Poseidon said, Zeus has a prolific head, and I guess Hera loses again in the "having a baby alone" contest.

For some reason, I think this "Adonis" is equal to Dionysus.

[mask131]

Roman gods are not Greek gods: Jupiter

JUPITER

Ah, Jupiter… Or Jove as he is also known. People tend to forget Jove was the official other name of Jupiter – in fact probably a more ancient name than Jupiter (the same thing with Vulcan and Volcanus). THE big Roman god. And I mean that in a literal way – Jupiter was THE god of Rome, THE god of the Roman Republic then Empire, THE god of the very Roman civilization.

But before jumping too much ahead, let’s take a brief look at who Jove/Jupiter was before the Hellenization.

Well… we don’t have much info, as usual. Jupiter clearly is an inheritance of the Etruscan god Tinia, which in turn was the Etruscan counterpart of Zeus, so there’s a full-cycle going on here. Early Jupiter was very clearly a sky god in charge of the weather. Thunder and lightning were part of his main attributes (which helped the Zeus-confusion), but he also was in control of other celestial phenomenon, such as wind, rain, storms or light. [The “light” part was very important for early-Jove, though experts debate as if this light was supposed to be a solar and lunar light, or just a reference to the light of the lightning). It makes sense that, in the rural and agricultural civilization that was “Rome before Rome”, such a god would become one of the most important and beloved of them. Another one of his early names or aspects was “Diespiter”, a deformation of Dieus-pater, “Day father”/”Sky father”. And while his elemental functions stayed in his numerous epithets and names (Jupiter Fulgur, Fulgurator or Fulgens, meaning Lightning Jupiter ; Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter sender of rains ; Jupiter Tonans/Tonitrualis, Jupiter the Thunderer ; Jupiter Lucetius, Jupiter of the Light…), his “natural” aspect got side-lined as Jupiter found his true vocation…

A political vocation. Jupiter was the most political of all the Roman gods. In fact, he was the very god of the Roman State, and the embodiment of Roman civilization as a whole. Jupiter was the god of “religious centralization” that kept absorbing smaller gods and aspects of minor deities as the Roman power grew ; it was said he appeared to the second mythical king of Rome, Numa Pompilius, to establish with him the very rules and principles of the Roman religion – and Jupiter was the one who sent forth the auspices and omens on which the Romans relied. Jupiter also ensured and fortified the unity of the Roman state by being the god of all laws, and the patron of all treaties and all oaths – on which the very Roman society and government relied. He embodied the three main virtues of every Roman citizen: justice, good faith and honor. He was the one who gave positions and authority in the highest offices of Rome: when consuls started their job, they prayed to Jupiter to obtain his help and indulgence; and Jupiter always was the patron of whoever was in charge of the Roman society – kings during the monarchy, the patricians during the Republic, and finally the emperor during the Empire. In fact, Roman Emperors took the habit of fusing and confusing their depictions in art with the ones of Jove, putting their faces on statues of Jupiter or having statues of themselves dressed like Jove, even to the point of several of the god’s titles becoming imperial titles: the ruler of humans and the ruler of the gods became one and the same.

When there was the first plebeian secession (aka when the plebeians, lower-citizen of Rome, got fed up with how the rich and powerful treated them and left Rome all together until better live conditions were negotiated), after everything was settled the hill on which the plebeians had taken refuge was consecrated to Jove as a sign of Rome’s newfound unity. Jupiter’s priests, the Flamen Dialis, were the highest-ranking members of the Roman public cult, with specific privileges identifying them as above and “more special” than other priests (or “flamines” as they were called) ; and Jupiter was also served by a second group of religious authority, the “fetials”, religious administrators of the international affairs of the state, whose job was to rely on the complex set of codes and procedures known as the “fetial law” to make sure the gods of Rome were “protected” whenever Rome interacted with foreign powers. Jupiter formed, alongside his wife Juno and daughter Minerva, the “Capitoline Triad”, the trio of gods protecting Rome’s very integrity. He was “Jupiter Terminalus/Terminus”, god of the Roman’s state limits and boundaries. He was the god present in each and every city of the Empire, and that was imported in every foreign culture conquered and absorbed by the Empire – Jupiter Taranis for the Gaul, Jupiter Solutorius for Antique Spain, Jupiter Poeninus in the Alps, Jupiter Parthinus among the Patherni, Jupiter Ladicus in Gallaecia… Jupiter was called “Optimus Maximus”, the best and the greatest, the grandest power of the Empire – bestowing all benefits and good things upon the world, and stronger than all of the other gods.

Of course, Jupiter was also a very important martial god, and the main supporter of Rome during their wars. Several of his “political” aspects doubled as military ones. For example Jupiter Feretrius, “Jupiter who carries away the spoils of war”, was the aspect of the god to which the corpses of enemy leaders were offered – but he also doubled as the political aspect of the god invoked to witness solemn oaths. In a reverse, Jupiter Stator, “Jupiter Standing”, was the aspect of the god as the very principal of founding, as the one who instituted everything in civilization and humanity – but he was also the god as he bestowed resistance, fastness and firmness to people, making simple people into soldiers ; and the god people prayed to in order to be protected from foreign invasions. He was also Jupiter Victor – Jupiter the Victorious, giving the power of “conquering everything”, and thus embodying the very imperialistic ambitions of Rome. It was under the sight of Jupiter Capitolinus, “Jupiter of the Capitole”, that the senators gathered to decide to declare a war, each general had to present themselves to him before battle, and if Rome was victorious, they crowned Jupiter with gold. There is also one aspect of Jupiter tied to the military history of Rome, though you probably wouldn’t know it – “Jupiter Pistor”, Jupiter the Baker. Because you see, as the Gaul army placed Rome under siege, Jupiter apparently appeared to the Roman citizens and told them to throw bread from above the walls of the city – to make the Gaul believe that Rome had so much food in stock they could throw some away without fearing any famine. It worked, and thus Jupiter was thanked as the “Baker”.

As people tend to point out, Jupiter’s Hellenization did not actually “change” the god in term of essence or religious rites – he was too strongly implanted and revered in the Roman world to be modified, plus he had enough common points with the Greek Zeus to be kept “as he was”. Jupiter still inherited the traditional physical depictions of Zeus (except in some local cults where he appeared as a beardless youth instead of a mature, bearded man), and gained most of the legends concerning his Greek counterpart.

In fact… it is in the “mythological” details that we get the most interesting developments of Jupiter. Most notably, we have one trace of pre-Hellenized Jupiter that shows how the Hellenization hit him: his family. Originally, Jupiter was an only son, twin brother of Juno, and born out of Fortuna Primigenia (the original mother of the gods and source of everything in the pre-Hellenized Roman religion). It wasn’t until the “Greek remake” that Jupiter became the son of Saturn and Ops (to fit the Kronos and Rhea myth), the brother of Neptune and Pluto (equivalents of Poseidon and Hades), and that Fortuna went from the ancient mother of the ruler of the gods, to a simple secondary goddess daughter of Jupiter (as Fortuna became remade in the shape of the Greek Tyche).

Another leftover of his original “elemental” incarnation can be found in the fact that each ides (full moon marking the midpoint of each month) were consecrated to him – because on the ides it was believed that there was as much daylight as nightlight, and in this perfect balance Jove was celebrated in his ancient form of “god of light”. This rustic aspect of Jupiter also manifests in how so many viniculture holidays and celebrations of Ancient Rome were tied to Jove – due to the grapes being easily destroyed by bad weather, and so winemakers kept praying Jove to be kind to them.

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JOVE doodle