He is basically a God of Sowing Seeds who made good. Saturnus started out as an old Italian deity in charge of agriculture and time. He looked after the crops and assisted with the growing cycle throughout the year. He had a nice little feast day in the middle of December to tide ...
Minerva- (Roman mythology) goddess of wisdom; counterpart of Greek Athena Dido- (Roman mythology) a princess of Tyre who was the founder and queen of Carthage; Virgil tells of her suicide when she was abandoned by Aeneas Saturn- (Roman mythology) god of agriculture and vegetation; counterpart...
Festivals and rituals The festivals of Mars cluster in his namesake month of March (Latin Martius), with a few observances in October, the beginning and end of the season for military campaigning and agriculture. Festivals with horse racing took place in the Campus Martius. Some festivals...
Saturn (Saturnus) Roman Originally a god of agriculture, of the sowing of seeds and corn; also the god of the passage of time.
The Saturn god symbol is a sickle to represent his role in agriculture. He is often depicted in paintings as an elderly man with a long beard and curly, silver hair. The Romans believed that Saturn had once ruled over a Golden Age, a time of peace and agricultural prosperity. Saturn ...
Jupiter: king of the gods Juno: goddess of fertility and marriage Vesta: goddess of hearth and home Ceres: goddess of the harvest and agriculture Pluto: god of the underworld However, Neptune’s father was worried that one of his own children would overthrow him just as he had done to ...
The goddess of hearth, home, and family, Vesta, was born to Ops, the Roman goddess of fertility, and Saturn, the god of agriculture, wealth, and abundance. Click to download PDF worksheets.
Jupiter is the son of Saturn, the god of agriculture and Ops the goddess of wealth and abundance. He had five siblings named Juno (goddess of fertility), Vesta (goddess of hearth), Ceres (goddess of agriculture), Neptune (god of the sea) and Pluto (god of the underworld). Jupiter ...
God of war, spring, growth in nature, agriculture, terror, anger, revenge, courage and fertility. Protector of cattle. The son of Jupiter and Juno, he was the god of war. Mars was regarded as the father of the Roman people because he was the father of Romulus, the legendary founder of...
6. Ceres, Goddess of Agriculture and Motherly Relationships Ceres’ love of and service to mankind is the equivalent of the Greek goddess, Demeter. As the goddess of cultivation, she taught people not only how to grow crops but also how to grow as a person. ...