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The power to have the traits and abilities of Roman deities. Roman counterpart of Greek Deity. Variation of Deity.

Also Called[]

  • Greco-Roman Deities
  • Roman God/Goddess
  • Roman Deity Physiology

Capabilities[]

User can draw power and abilities connected to the Roman deities. Most Roman deities were or had Greek equivalents with few exceptions (such as Janus). That said, the Romans identified their own gods with those of the ancient Greeks—who were closely historically related in some cases, such as Zeus and Jupiter—and reinterpreted myths about Greek deities under the names of their Roman counterparts. Greek and Roman mythologies are therefore often classified together in the modern era as Greco-Roman mythology.

Applications (General)[]

Deities[]

Principal Deities[]

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  • Apollon
    • Absolute Accuracy (His arrow killed his friend Hyacinthus in Book 10 of Ovid's Metamorpheses)
      • One Hit Kill (In the Homeric hymn to Apollo, Python was a female drakon and the nurse of the giant Typhon whom Hera had created to overthrow Zeus. She was described as a terrifying monster and a "bloody plague". Apollo, in his pursuit to establish his worship, came across Python and killed her with a single arrow shot from his bow. He let the corpse rot under the sun and declared himself the oracular deity of Delphi. Other authors have Apollo kill the monster using a hundred arrows or a thousand arrows)
      • Misfortune Redirection and Immortality Negation (This legend is also narrated as the origin of the cry "Hië paian". According to Athenaeus, Pyhton attacked Leto and her twins during their visit to Delphi. Taking Artemis into her arms, Leto climbed upon a rock and cried at Apollo to shoot the monster. The cry let out by her, "ιε, παῖ" ("Shoot, boy") later got slightly altered as "ἰὴ παιών" (Hië paian), an exclamation to avert evils)
        • Ancestry Manipulation (Genetor (/ˈdʒɛnɪtər/ JEN-ih-tər; Γενέτωρ, Genetōr), literally "ancestor")
    • Animal Manipulation (Controls animals in many myths he is featured in such as wolves; Animals sacred to Apollo included wolves, dolphins, roe deer, swans, cicadas which symbolized music and song along with ravens, hawks, crows)
    • Motion Manipulation (Limited. According to Plato and Socrates, Apollo was the reason why all things, including gods and men move)
    • Art, Athletics, Healing, Music & Youthful Empowerment (God of art, athletics, healing and music; also said to be immortal)
    • Art Manipulation (God of art)
    • Divine Object (Sun Chariot & Lyre)
    • Divine Weaponry (Golden Bow & Silver Arrows)
      • Arrow Generation
      • Infinite Supply (His arrows are never said to be limited)
      • Solar Bow Construction (His bow is the sun)
        • Strength Infinitum (As a four-year-old child, Apollo built a foundation and an altar on Delos using the horns of the goats that his sister Artemis hunted. Since he learnt the art of building when young, he came to be known as Archegetes, (the founder of towns) and guided men to build new cities. To keep the child amused, the Delian nymphs ran around the altar beating it, and then with their hands tied behind their backs, bit an olive branch. It later became a custom for all the sailors who passed by the island to do the same. From his father Zeus, Apollo received a golden headband and a chariot driven by swans. In his early years when Apollo spent his time herding cows, he was reared by the Thria e, who trained him and enhanced his prophetic skills. The god Pan was also said to mentored him in the prophetic art. Apollo is also said to have invented the lyre, and along with Artemis, the art of archery. He then taught the humans the art of healing and archery)
    • Dubiousness Inducement and Curse Inducement (cursed Cassandra in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 11 with never having her prophecies being believed in spite of their accuracy)
    • Esoteric Flame Manipulation (In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 2, Lines 441-466: "The Moon's bent horns were rising from their ninth sojourn, when, fainting from Apollo's flames, the goddess of the Chase observed a cool umbrageous grove, from which a murmuring stream ran babbling gently over golden sands")
    • Destiny Manipulation and Curse Inducement (The fate of Niobe was prophesied by Apollo while he was still in Leto's womb. Niobe was the queen of Thebes and wife of Amphion. She displayed hubris when she boasted that she was superior to Leto because she had fourteen children (Niobids), seven male and seven female, while Leto had only two. She further mocked Apollo's effeminate appearance and Artemis' manly appearance. Leto, insulted by this, told her children to punish Niobe. Accordingly, Apollo killed Niobe's sons, and Artemis her daughters. According to some versions of the myth, among the Niobids, Chloris and her brother Amyclas were not killed because they prayed to Leto. Amphion, at the sight of his dead sons, either killed himself or was killed by Apollo after swearing revenge.)
    • Guardianship
    • Health Manipulation (God of healing, medicine and diseases)
      • Flawless Healing, Disease Manipulation, Health Optimization/Medical Intuition and Medicine Manipulation (Apollo delivered people from epidemics, yet he is also a god who could bring ill health and deadly plague with his arrows. The invention of archery itself is credited to Apollo and his sister Artemis. Apollo is usually described as carrying a silver or golden bow and a quiver of silver or golden arrows)
      • Omni-Healing (Iatromantis (/aɪˌætrəˈmæntɪs/ eye-AT-rə-MAN-tis; Ἰατρομάντις, Iātromantis,) from ἰατρός, "physician", and μάντις, "prophet", referring to his role as a god both of healing and of prophecy)
    • Inspiration Manipulation (Leader of the Muses)
    • Knowledge Deity Physiology
      • Knowledge Manipulation and Intelligence Manipulation
        • Lesser Divinity (In pre-Hellenic times, he is said to have been a lesser divinity)
          • Supreme Divinity (Apollo is a divinity beyond human comprehension, he appears both as a beneficial and a wrathful god)
        • Literary Manipulation (poetry)
        • Food Manipulation (Apollo was rumoured to be the god who will "greatly lord it among gods and men all over the fruitful earth". For this reason, all the lands were fearful and Delos feared that Apollo would cast her aside once he is be born. Hearing this, Leto swore on the river Styx that if she is allowed to give birth on the island, her son would honour Delos the most amongst all the other lands. Assured by this, Delos agreed to assist Leto. All goddesses except Hera also then came to aid Leto)
      • Nigh-Omniscience (As the "original seer")
    • Law Manipulation (On the other hand, Apollo also encouraged the founding of new towns and the establishment of civil constitutions, is associated with dominion over colonists, and was the giver of laws. His oracles were often consulted before setting laws in a city. Apollo Agyieus was the protector of the streets, public places and home entrances)
    • Absolute Sound Manipulation (Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 8 Lines 11-15: "Six times the horns of rising Phoebe grew, and still the changing fortune of the war was in suspense; so, Victory day by day between them hovered on uncertain wings. Within that city was a regal tower on tuneful walls; where once Apollo laid his golden harp; and in the throbbing stone the sounds remained")
    • Meta Love Inducement (Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 10, Lines 78-86: "Three times the Sun completed his full course to watery Pisces, and in all that time, shunning all women, Orpheus still believed his love-pledge was forever. So he kept away from women, though so many grieved, because he took no notice of their love. The only friendship he enjoyed was given to the young men of Thrace.")
      • Healing (Book 10 lines 185-209: "The kind god tries to warm you back to life, and next endeavors to attend your wound, and stay your parting soul with healing herbs. His skill is no advantage, for the wound is past all art of cure. As if someone, when in a garden, breaks off violets, poppies, or lilies hung from golden stems, then drooping they must hang their withered heads, and gaze down towards the earth beneath them; so, the dying boy's face droops, and his bent neck, a burden to itself, falls back upon his shoulder: “You are fallen in your prime defrauded of your youth, O Hyacinthus!” Moaned Apollo. “I can see in your sad wound my own guilt, and you are my cause of grief and self-reproach. My own hand gave you death unmerited—I only can be charged with your destruction.—What have I done wrong? Can it be called a fault to play with you? Should loving you be called a fault? And oh, that I might now give up my life for you! Or die with you! But since our destinies prevent us you shall always be with me, and you shall dwell upon my care-filled lips. The lyre struck by my hand, and my true songs will always celebrate you. A new flower you shall arise, with markings on your petals, close imitation of my constant moans: and there shall come another to be linked with this new flower, a valiant hero shall be known by the same marks upon its petals.”)
    • Meta Music Manipulation (He should be far superior to Orpheus, who in Metamorphoses, Book 11, Lines 1-61: "While with his songs, Orpheus, the bard of Thrace, allured the trees, the savage animals, and even the insensate rocks, to follow him; Ciconian matrons, with their raving breasts concealed in skins of forest animals, from the summit of a hill observed him there, attuning love songs to a sounding harp. One of those women, as her tangled hair was tossed upon the light breeze shouted, “See! Here is the poet who has scorned our love!” Then hurled her spear at the melodious mouth of great Apollo's bard: but the spear's point, trailing in flight a garland of fresh leaves, made but a harmless bruise and wounded not. The weapon of another was a stone, which in the very air was overpowered by the true harmony of his voice and lyre, and so disabled lay before his feet, as asking pardon for that vain attempt. The madness of such warfare then increased. All moderation is entirely lost, and a wild Fury overcomes the right.—although their weapons would have lost all force, subjected to the power of Orpheus' harp, the clamorous discord of their boxwood pipes, the blaring of their horns, their tambourines and clapping hands and Bacchanalian yells, with hideous discords drowned his voice and harp.—at last the stones that heard his song no more fell crimson with the Thracian poet's blood. Before his life was taken, the maenads turned their threatening hands upon the many birds, which still were charmed by Orpheus as he sang, the serpents, and the company of beasts—fabulous audience of that worshipped bard. And then they turned on him their blood-stained hands: and flocked together swiftly, as wild birds, which, by some chance, may see the bird of night beneath the sun. And as the savage dogs rush on the doomed stag, loosed some bright fore-noon, on blood-sand of the amphitheatre; they rushed against the bard, with swift hurled thyrsi which, adorned with emerald leaves had not till then been used for cruelty. And some threw clods, and others branches torn from trees; and others threw flint stones at him, and, that no lack of weapons might restrain their savage fury then, not far from there by chance they found some oxen which turned up the soil with ploughshares, and in fields nearby were strong-armed peasants, who with eager sweat worked for the harvest as they dug hard fields; and all those peasants, when they saw the troop of frantic women, ran away and left their implements of labor strown upon deserted fields—harrows and heavy rakes and their long spades after the savage mob had seized upon those implements, and torn to pieces oxen armed with threatening horns, they hastened to destroy the harmless bard, devoted Orpheus; and with impious hate, murdered him, while his out-stretched hands implored their mercy—the first and only time his voice had no persuasion. O great Jupiter! Through those same lips which had controlled the rocks and which had overcome ferocious beasts, his life breathed forth, departed in the air. The mournful birds, the stricken animals, the hard stones and the weeping woods, all these that often had followed your inspiring voice, bewailed your death; while trees dropped their green leaves, mourning for you, as if they tore their hair. They say sad rivers swelled with their own tears—naiads and dryads with dishevelled hair wore garments of dark color. His torn limbs were scattered in strange places. Hebrus then received his head and harp—and, wonderful! While his loved harp was floating down the stream, it mourned for him beyond my power to tell. His tongue though lifeless, uttered a mournful sound and mournfully the river's banks replied: onward borne by the river to the sea they left their native stream and reached the shore of Lesbos at Methymna. Instantly, a furious serpent rose to attack the head of Orpheus, cast up on that foreign sand—the hair still wet with spray. Phoebus at last appeared and saved the head from that attack: before the serpent could inflict a sting, he drove it off, and hardened its wide jaws to rigid stone.")
      • Absolute Command (Book 11 lines 146-172: "While Pan was boasting there to mountain nymphs of his great skill in music, and while he was warbling a gay tune upon the reeds, cemented with soft wax, in his conceit he dared to boast to them how he despised Apollo's music when compared with his—. At last to prove it, he agreed to stand against Apollo in a contest which it was agreed should be decided by Tmolus as their umpire. This old god sat down on his own mountain, and first eased his ears of many mountain growing trees, oak leaves were wreathed upon his azure hair and acorns from his hollow temples hung. First to the Shepherd-god Tmolus spoke: “My judgment shall be yours with no delay." Pan made some rustic sounds on his rough reeds, delighting Midas with his uncouth notes; for Midas chanced to be there when he played. When Pan had ceased, divine Tmolus turned to Phoebus, and the forest likewise turned just as he moved. Apollo's golden locks were richly wreathed with fresh Parnassian laurel; his robe of Tyrian purple swept the ground; his left hand held his lyre, adorned with gems and Indian ivory. His right hand held the plectrum—as an artist he stood there before Tmolus, while his skilful thumb touching the strings made charming melody. Delighted with Apollo's artful touch, Tmolus ordered Pan to hold his reeds excelled by beauty of Apollo's lyre.")
    • Music Manipulation (His playing of the lyre)
      • Dance Manipulation (Whenever he played the lyre, he would cause the immortal gods to dance as well as the Muses and even trees)
      • Enhanced Musicianship (Given his performance against Pan in Book 11 of the Metamorphoses)
    • Obstruction Removal and Dream Materialization (However, in many other accounts, Apollo had to overcome certain obstacles before he was able to establish himself at Delphi. Gaea came in conflict with Apollo for killing Python and claiming the Delphic oracle for himself. According to Pindar, she sought to banish Apollo to Tartarus as a punishment. According to Euripides, soon after Apollo took the ownership of the oracle, Gaea started sending prophetic dreams to the humans. As a result, people stopped visiting Delphi to obtain prophecies. Troubled by this, Apollo went to Olympus and supplicated to Zeus. Zeus, admiring the ambitions of his young son, granted his request by putting an end to the dream visions. This sealed the role of Apollo as the oracular deity of Delphi)
    • Omni-Magic and Meta Death-Force Manipulation (Homer interprets Apollo as a terrible god (δεινὸς θεός) who brings death and disease with his arrows, but who can also heal, possessing a magic art that separates him from the other Greek gods)
    • Oracular Deity Physiology (As god of colonization, Apollo gave oracular guidance on colonies)
    • Omni-Perception, Future Manipulation, Future-Probability Cognition and Future Sight Bestowal (In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 1 Lines 502-525 "The Delphic Land, the Pataraean Realm, Claros and Tenedos revere my name, and my immortal sire is Jupiter. The present, past and future are through me in sacred oracles revealed to man, and from my harp the harmonies of sound are borrowed by their bards to praise the Gods. My bow is certain, but a flaming shaft surpassing mine has pierced my heart—untouched before. The art of medicine is my invention, and the power of herbs; but though the world declare my useful works there is no herb to medicate my wound, and all the arts that save have failed their lord.”)
    • Order Manipulation (Is the embodiment of order, harmony and reason)
    • Precognition Manipulation (Through using his sight)
    • Purification (Because he was purified, he should be able to use the sun to purify others)
    • Bio-Energetic Physician (Paean (/ˈpiːən/ PEE-ən; Παιάν, Paiān), physician, healer)
    • Solar Deity Physiology (God of the sun)
    • Song Augmentation
    • Supernatural Archery (Killed Hyacinthus unintentionally with one hit)
    • Supernatural Beauty (In most depictions such as those found in Hellenistic Greece, he is shown to look like a very beautiful, beardless and handsome man)
    • Birth Manipulation and Reality Warping (While in some accounts Apollo's birth itself fixed the floating Delos to the earth, there are accounts of Apollo securing Delos to the bottom of the ocean a little while later)
    • Telepathy (Can read minds given his clairvoyance alone)
    • Limited Transition Manipulation and Infinite Energy/Infinite Experience (Transitions related only to adulthood. Protection of the young is one of the best attested facets of his panhellenic cult persona. As a kourotrophos, Apollo is concerned with the health and education of children, and he presided over their passage into adulthood. Long hair, which was the prerogative of boys, was cut at the coming of age (ephebeia) and dedicated to Apollo. The god himself is depicted with long, uncut hair to symbolise his eternal youth)
    • Transmutation and Absolute Speed/Absolute Speed Flight (In Book 11 of Ovid's Metamorphorses, Line 318-346: "Ah! when he saw her burning, he was filled with such an uncontrolled despair, he rushed four times to leap upon the blazing pyre; and after he had been four times repulsed, he turned and rushed away in headlong flight through trackless country, as a bullock flees, his swollen neck pierced with sharp hornet-stings, it seemed to me he ran beyond the speed of any human being. You would think his feet had taken wings, he left us far behind and swift in his desire for death he stood at last upon Parnassus' height. Apollo pitied him.—And when Daedalion leaped over the steep cliff, Apollo's power transformed him to a bird; supported him while he was hovering in the air upon uncertain wings, of such a sudden growth. Apollo, also, gave him a curved beak, and to his slender toes gave crooked claws. His former courage still remains, with strength greater than usual in birds. He changed to a fierce hawk; cruel to all, he vents his rage on other birds. Grieving himself he is a cause of grief to all his kind")
    • Truth Manipulation, Lie & Truth Detection and Truth Inducement (In Book 11, lines 209: And while Phoebus, Apollo, sang these words with his truth-telling lips, behold the blood of Hyacinthus, which had poured out on the ground beside him and there stained the grass, was changed from blood; and in its place a flower, more beautiful than Tyrian dye, sprang up. It almost seemed a lily, were it not that one was purple and the other white. But Phoebus was not satisfied with this. For it was he who worked the miracle of his sad words inscribed on flower leaves. These letters AI, AI, are inscribed on them. And Sparta certainly is proud to honor Hyacinthus as her son; and his loved fame endures; and every year they celebrate his solemn festival."
  • Janus
    • Absolute Change (According to Cicero, Ovid and others, he is capable of controlling all forms of change such as transitions, etc)
    • Change Embodiment (God of change)
    • Absolute Immortality and Boundless World Creation (Janus was present at the beginning of the world. As the god of gates, Janus guarded the gates of heaven and held access to heaven and other gods and creator of the world which is repeatedly said to be boundless in the Metamorphoses)
    • Absolute Transcendence (He was the best of kings; and diuum deus, god of the gods)
    • Agriculture Intuition (Responsible for overseeing the harvest and had control of plants such as figs)
    • Alpha Reality/Authority Embodiment (First of the gods)
    • Archetype: Causa Sui (Is a primordial deity)
    • Aspect Manifestation (Portunus may be defined as a sort of duplication inside the scope of the powers and attributes of Janus. His original definition shows he was the god of gates and doors and of harbours)
    • Army Manipulation (Quirinus is a god that incarnates the quirites, i.e. the Romans in their civil capacity of producers and fathers. He is surnamed Mars tranquillus (peaceful Mars), Mars qui praeest paci (Mars who presides on peace). His function of custos guardian is highlighted by the location of his temple inside the pomerium but not far from the gate of Porta Collina or Quirinalis, near the shrines of Sancus and Salus. As a protector of peace he is nevertheless armed, in the same way as the quirites are, as they are potentially milites soldiers: his statue represents him is holding a spear. For this reason Janus, god of gates, is concerned with his function of protector of the civil community. For the same reason the flamen Portunalis oiled the arms of Quirinus, implying that they were to be kept in good order and ready even though they were not to be used immediately)
    • Archetype: Creator Deity (He is described in some sources as a creator deity who attended the birth of the Roman Gods, such as Jupiter)
    • Beginning Dominance (God of beginnings; Janus was believed to be the overseer of all forms of celestial or earthly transitions and beginnings)
    • Conclusion Dominance and Meta Death-Force Manipulation (God of endings)
    • Calendar Manipulation/Time Frame Creation (The deity of transition was also responsible for the calendar)
      • Season Manipulation (Janus was associated with the calendar and time. His association with transitions meant that he was often seen as a god of time. Janus was especially associated with celebrations around the New Year in mid-winter. He oversaw seasonal events such as planting, harvests, seasonal changes, and the new year)
    • Transition Manipulation (Controls the transitions of youth into adulthood, birth into death, etc. alongside abstract dualities; Is also the god of transition)
    • Boundary Manipulation (Involved in boundaries through spatial transitions; a part of him in the form of the goddess Cardea who is the goddess of hinges as well as the gateway that separates Earth and Heaven)
    • Duality Embodiment (His two faces embody the duality of beginnings and endings; also the god of duality)
    • Guardianship/Heaven Lordship (Gatekeeper of Heaven)
      • Harvest Manipulation (Was said to rule over the harvest)
        • Plant Manipulation (Another implication of this ability meant that he could supervise the planting seasons and harvests)
        • Heaven Manipulation (Controller of gateways of heaven and earth; Janus himself was the ianitor, or doorkeeper, of the heavens.)
          • Interaction Manipulation (The ancient Romans worshiped Janus as the deity that presided over all forms of beginnings – this could be abstract or concrete; The transition from childhood to adulthood was believed to be carried out by Janus. Thus Janus was concerned with every manner of change or transition taking place in the cosmos, symbolically and metaphorically. The ancient Romans also called upon Janus in times of marriage ceremonies, child outdooring, and deaths)
          • Event Denial (Because events like season changes, a new year or month, birthdays, births, deaths, marriages, and even starting a new job are, in a sense, doorways between the past and future, it’s beneficial to honor them)
          • Opposites Embodiment (Janus, of course, is everyone – all of us -- as we struggle to reach decisions on the choices that punctuate our lives. We are unsure which is the real face of the Janus figure, or whether there is a right direction to point, although compasses are oriented toward true north. Janus is two-faced, not from hypocrisy or insincerity, but as a result of reflection. He always looks at both sides of the question, reflectively and deeply within the conscious mind. The ideas we will explore include such apparent polarities as justice and forgiveness, belief and skepticism, the ascetic and the sensuous)
          • Relationship Empowerment (Related to marriage. The ancient Romans also called upon Janus in times of marriage ceremonies, child outdooring, and deaths)
          • Meta Nature Manipulation/Meta Environment Manipulation (By controlling all harvest)
    • Key-Based Powers, Spatial Barrier Creation and Absolute Lock Manipulation (Janus was the protector of doors, gates and roadways in general, as is shown by his two symbols, the key and the staff. The key too was a sign that the traveller had come to a harbour or ford in peace to exchange his goods)
    • Motion Manipulation and Meta Movement (As a god of motion, Janus looks after passages, causes actions to start and presides over all beginnings. Since movement and change are interconnected, he has a double nature, symbolised in his two-headed image. He has under his tutelage the stepping in and out of the door of homes, the ianua, which took its name from him, and not vice versa. Similarly, his tutelage extends to the covered passages named iani and foremost to the gates of the city, including the cultic gate of the Argiletum, named Ianus Geminus or Porta Ianualis from which he protects Rome against the Sabines)
    • Kingdom Manipulation (Defied Jupiter in January)
      • Teleportation (Typical with many Roman gods, Janus is depicted with a staff in his right hand. The Romans believed that he used the staff to guide travellers embarked on a journey to safety)
        • Trading Mastery (Janus evolved over time, and he was also associated with travel, trade, and sailing. Many merchants celebrate the cult of Janus as a result. Janus was also summoned at the beginning of any public ceremony, such as the Senate opening)
        • Lunar, Primordial, Archetype: Temporal Entity, Archetype: Liminal Deity, Archetype: Light Deity, Bridge Manipulation, Sky & Solar Deity Physiology (According to modern and ancient interpretations of Janus' roles, they can be defined as: Interpretations concerning the god's fundamental nature either limit it to this general function or emphasize a concrete or particular aspect of it (identifying him with light, the sun, the moon, time, movement, the year, doorways, bridges, etc.) or else see in the god a sort of cosmological principle, interpreting him as a uranic deity))
      • Absolute Law Manipulation (As the god of gates, Janus guarded the gates of heaven and held access to heaven and other gods. For this reason, Janus was often invoked first in ancient Roman religious ceremonies, and during public sacrifices, offerings were given to Janus before any other deity)
      • Meta Life-Force Manipulation and Tenth Dimension Physiology (Janus’s influence extends beyond the realm of gods and into the lives of humans, as he was renowned as the instigator of human life)
        • Meta Time Manipulation (God of time; Janus is frequently depicted with two faces, one gazing towards the past and the other to the future, symbolizing his ability to perceive both the commencement and the conclusion. This unique perspective allows Janus to guide individuals through significant life transitions, such as birth, marriage, and death, as well as to provide protection and guidance during times of change and uncertainty; In some accounts, he is described as deity who is as old as time itself. What this means is that Janus was present at the beginning of creation, making him the “master of time”)
    • Omni-Action (Being the start of activities. The symbols of keys and staffs are closely associated with Janus, as they represent his role in protecting the start of all activities and inaugurating the seasons)
      • Authority Bestowal and Peace Empowerment (The key in his right hand signifies his role in safeguarding doors, gates, thresholds, and other divisions between spatial boundaries, while the staff, or virga, is a symbol of his authority and power. In ancient Rome, the symbol of the key indicated that a traveler had arrived to seek refuge or trade goods in a peaceful manner)
      • Meta Luck and Meta Jinx (Through being the start of activities)
      • Meta Space-Time Manipulation (Janus’ two faces allowed him to transcend the boundaries of space and time. He was portrayed as a deity who could see in both directions of time – the future and the past. This explains why he was described as the “master of time”)
      • Omnipresence (Janus was concerned with every manner of change or transition taking place in the cosmos, symbolically and metaphorically. Regardless of how minute or big the transition was, Janus was always present to preside over it.)
      • Omniscience/Omniscience Bestowal (By knowing everything)
    • Passageway Manipulation and Sealing (The gates of a building in Rome named after him (not a temple, as it is often called, but an open enclosure with gates at each end) were opened in time of war, and closed to mark the arrival of peace)
    • Path Manipulation (Controller of paths and passageways)
    • Power Bestowal and Meta Power Manipulation (The myth involving Carna. Carna was a nymph of the sacred lucus of Helernus, made goddess of hinges by Janus with the name of Cardea, and had the power of protecting and purifying thresholds and the doorposts)
    • Preservation (Of all transitions)
    • Sacrificial Power (To receive blessings or to pray to any god, one had to invoke Janus first)
    • Seer and Divination (By having multiple heads)
      • Social Mastery, Archetype: Mankind Deity and Archetype: Ultimate Being, Omni-Perception and Omni-Protection (The theological features of Heimdallr look similar to Janus's: both in space and time he stands at the limits. His abode is at the limits of Earth, at the extremity of Heaven; he is the protector of the gods; his birth is at the beginning of time; he is the forefather of mankind, the generator of classes and the founder of the social order. Nonetheless he is inferior to the sovereign god Oðinn: the Minor Völuspá defines his relationship to Oðinn almost with the same terms as those in which Varro defines that of Janus, god of the prima to Jupiter, god of the summa: Heimdallr is born as the firstborn (primigenius, var einn borinn í árdaga), Oðinn is born as the greatest (maximus, var einn borinn öllum meiri))
    • Precognition (Perceives the future of all beings)
    • Realm Connection/Realm Closure (These symbols not only emphasize Janus’s role as the guardian of doorways and transitions, but also underscore his connection to boundaries and access to other realms. As the god of beginnings and endings, Janus’ symbols serve as a reminder of the importance of transitions in our lives and the possibility for transformation and change)
    • Retrocognition and Temporal Cognition (He can see in the past)
      • Temporal Entity Physiology (According to the Roman creation story, he existed at the beginning of creation and time)
        • Time Energy Manipulation (As a guardian of time, Janus is frequently depicted with two faces, one gazing towards the past and the other to the future, symbolizing his ability to perceive both the commencement and the conclusion. This unique perspective allows Janus to guide individuals through significant life transitions, such as birth, marriage, and death, as well as to provide protection and guidance during times of change and uncertainty)
        • Space-Time Manipulation (Can control space and time as they are dualities under his command)
        • Peace Manipulation (Ancient Romans credited Janus for ushering them from an era of barbarism and backwardness into a civilized society. This explains why some versions of the myth hold him in high esteem, almost in the same reverence as the Roman god Jupiter)
    • Time Embodiment (Via what his faces embody. Janus is portrayed with two faces—one facing the past, and one facing the future. He also holds a key in his right hand, which symbolizes his protection of doors, gates, thresholds, and other separations or openings between spatial boundaries)
    • Ritual Empowerment (Being the deity of transition and beginnings, Janus played a vital function in the Roman pantheon. For starters, the Romans called upon him at the start of every religious ritual)
    • War Empowerment and Stagnation (In ancient Rome, it was believed that the deity who oversaw the period between war and peace was Janus. In other words, without Janus, there could be no transition from one period to another; As the god of beginnings and endings, Janus was revered at the commencement and conclusion of military campaigns, believed to have the power to keep war at bay and to be the ultimate arbiter of whether peace or strife reigned)
      • Sacrifice Empowerment (His shrine the Janus Geminus in the Roman Forum, "According to the historian Livy, Numa intended the shrine: as an index of peace and war, that when open it might signify that the nation was in arms, when closed that all the peoples round about were pacified")
    • War & Peace Manipulation (His epithet of Quirinus, according to Francophone, is related to the ideas of the passage of the Roman people from war back to peace, from the condition of miles, soldier, to that of quiris, citizen occupied in peaceful business, as the rites of the Porta Belli imply; is also called Belliger, the bringer of war or Pacificus, the bringer of peace according to Georges Dumézil; is the arbiter of war and peace)
  • Jupiter
    • Absolute Condition (Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 1 Line 177: "When the Gods were seated, therefore, in its marble halls the King of all above the throng sat high, and leaning on his ivory scepter, thrice, and once again he shook his awful locks, wherewith he moved the earth, and seas and stars")
      • Supreme Voice and Absolute Spirituality (Another translation of the above statement. Book 1 of Metamorphoses lines 193-215: "When, therefore, the Gods above had taken their seats in the marble hall of assembly; he himself, elevated on his seat, and leaning on his sceptre of ivory, three or four times shook the awful locks of his head, with which he makes the Earth, the Seas, and the Stars to tremble. Then, after such manner as this, did he open his indignant lips:—“Not even at that time was I more concerned for the empire of the universe, when each of the snake-footed monsters was endeavoring to lay his hundred arms on the captured skies. For although that was a dangerous enemy, yet that war was with but one stock, and sprang from a single origin. Now must the race of mortals be cut off by me, wherever Nereus roars on all sides of the earth; this I swear by the Rivers of Hell, that glide in the Stygian grove beneath the earth. All methods have been already tried; but a wound that admits of no cure, must be cut away with the knife, that the sound parts may not be corrupted. I have as subjects, Demigods, and I have the rustic Deities, the Nymphs, and the Fauns, and the Satyrs, and the Sylvans, the inhabitants of the mountains; these, though as yet, we have not thought them worthy of the honor of Heaven, let us, at least, permit to inhabit the earth which we have granted them. And do you, ye Gods of Heaven, believe that they will be in proper safety, when Lycaon remarkable for his cruelty, has formed a plot against even me, who own and hold sway over the thunder and yourselves?”)
    • Absolute Durability (Is uncontested in Roman myth)
    • Absolute Immortality (Can give other deities immortality; Is called in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 1, Line 502: "My immortal sire is Jupiter" and in line 588, he is called "Immortal Jove")
    • Absolute Stealth and Absolute Concealment (Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 3 Lines 1-26: "Now Jupiter had not revealed himself, nor laid aside the semblance of a bull, until they stood upon the plains of Crete. But not aware of this, her father bade her brother Cadmus search through all the world, until he found his sister, and proclaimed him doomed to exile if he found her not;—thus was he good and wicked in one deed. When he had vainly wandered over the earth (for who can fathom the deceits of Jove?")
    • Absolute Transcendence (The most powerful Roman deity)
      • Absolute Erasure (Metamorphoses Book 2: Jove himself, the ruler of the sky, That hurls the three-fork'd thunder from above, 75 Dares try his strength ; yet who as strong as Jove?)
    • Absolute Regeneration (Via lightning)
    • Absolute Will and Knowledge Embodiment ("Thus fell one house, but not one house alone deserved to perish; over all the earth ferocious deeds prevail,—all men conspire in evil. Let them therefore feel the weight of dreadful penalties so justly earned, for such hath my unchanging will ordained.”)
      • Urban Intuition (The augures publici, augurs were a college of sacerdotes who were in charge of all inaugurations and of the performing of ceremonies known as auguria. Their creation was traditionally ascribed to Romulus. They were considered the only official interpreters of Jupiter's will, thence they were essential to the very existence of the Roman State as Romans saw in Jupiter the only source of state authority)
    • Agriculture Mastery and Omniarch (Augustine gives an explanation of the ones he lists which should reflect Varro's: Opitulus because he brings opem (means, relief) to the needy, Almus because he nourishes everything, Ruminus because he nourishes the living beings by breastfeeding them, Pecunia because everything belongs to him)
      • Harvest Inducement (Wissowa considered Jupiter also a god of war and agriculture, in addition to his political role as guarantor of good faith (public and private) as Iuppiter Lapis and Dius Fidius, respectively. His view is grounded in the sphere of action of the god (who intervenes in battle and influences the harvest through weather))
    • Almighty Ascension, Absolute Force Manipulation and Ultimate Attacks (His thunderbolts could turn anyone into a corpse)
    • Anthroscience (Jupiter is usually thought to have originated as a sky god. His identifying implement is the thunderbolt and his primary sacred animal is the eagle)
    • Border Manipulation (God of borders and alliances. He maintained the Latin League, for example, an alliance of Latin villages and tribes organized for mutual defense.)
    • Boundary Manipulation (Full Mastery - Jupiter Terminalus or Iuppiter Terminus, patron and defender of boundaries)
    • Chaos Inducement and Absolute Probability Manipulation (Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 2, lines 272-319: "If the seas and lands together perish and thy palace fall, the universe confused will plunge once more to ancient Chaos. Save it from this wreck—if anything survive the fury of the flames.” So made the tortured Earth an end of speech; and she was fain to hide her countenance in caves that border on the nether night. But now the Almighty Father, having called to witness all the Gods of Heaven, and him who gave the car, that, else his power be shown, must perish all in dire confusion, high he mounted to the altitude from which he spreads the mantling clouds, and fulminates his dreadful thunders and swift lightning-bolts terrific.—Clouds were none to find on the earth, and the surrounding skies were void of rain.—Jove, having reached that summit, stood and poised in his almighty hand a flashing dart, and, hurling it, deprived of life and seat the youthful charioteer, and struck with fire the raging flames—and by the same great force those flames enveloping the earth were quenched, and he who caused their fury lost his life. Frantic in their affright the horses sprang across the bounded way and cast their yokes, and through the tangled harness lightly leaped. And here the scattered harness lay, and there the shattered axle, wrenched from off the pole, and various portions of the broken car; spokes of the broken Wheel were scattered round.")
    • Complete Arsenal (As the supreme ruler of all the gods)
    • Conquest Empowerment (Overthrew Saturn)
    • Deification and Matter Manipulation (Turned various beings into gods such as Janus or Io into a white wolf)
    • Divine Object/Divine Weaponry (Thunder)
    • Domain Manipulation (The universe)
    • Duality Transcendence (Should be superior to Janus whose faces embody duality)
    • Absolute Fear Inducement (Territor (who scares))
    • Freedom (Final Level - by the epithet of Liberator)
    • Fusionism (Savazios (fusion with Sabatius), Sempiternus and Serapis (fusion with Serapis))
    • Gender Transcendence (The epithet Ruminus, as Wissowa and Latte remarked, may not have the meaning given by Augustine but it should be understood as part of a series including Rumina, Ruminalis ficus, Iuppiter Ruminus, which bears the name of Rome itself with an Etruscan vocalism preserved in inscriptions, series that would be preserved in the sacred language (cf. Rumach Etruscan for Roman). However many scholars have argued that the name of Rome, Ruma, meant in fact woman's breast)
    • Heaven Lordship (Rules Heaven according to Ovid)
    • Heaven Manipulation (The two gods (with a charm) evoked Jupiter, who was forced to come down to earth at the Aventine (hence named Iuppiter Elicius, according to Ovid). After Numa skilfully avoided the requests of the god for human sacrifices, Jupiter agreed to his request to know how lightning bolts are averted, asking only for the substitutions Numa had mentioned: an onion bulb, hairs and a fish. Moreover, Jupiter promised that at the sunrise of the following day he would give to Numa and the Roman people pawns of the imperium. The following day, after throwing three lightning bolts across a clear sky, Jupiter sent down from heaven a shield. Since this shield had no angles, Numa named it ancile; because in it resided the fate of the imperium, he had many copies made of it to disguise the real one)
    • Immortality Removal and complete nullification of Absolute Immortality (via his thunderbolts)
    • Indestructible Object Creation/Flawless Indestructibility (Jove Aegiochus, Jove "Holder of the Goat or Aegis", as the father of Aegipan)
    • Infinite Energy (Other epithets include: Almus: he who nourishes all things and Ruminus: he who nourishes all animals)
    • Justice Manipulation (By claps of thunder. In Dumézil's opinion Farreus should be understood as related to the rite of the confarreatio the most sacred form of marriage, the name of which is due to the spelt cake eaten by the spouses, rather than surmising an agricultural quality of the god: the epithet means the god was the guarantor of the effects of the ceremony, to which the presence of his flamen is necessary and that he can interrupt with a clap of thunder)
    • Meta Fate Manipulation/Omniscience Bestowal, Flawless Precognition, Omni-Perception and Omni-Precognition and Universe Destruction/Multiverse Destruction/Omniverse Destruction/Absolute Destruction (In Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 1 line 253: "And now his thunder bolts would Jove wide scatter, but he feared the flames, unnumbered, sacred ether might ignite and burn the axle of the universe: and he remembered in the scroll of fate, there is a time appointed when the sea and earth and Heavens shall melt, and fire destroy the universe of mighty labour wrought. Such weapons by the skill of Cyclops forged, for different punishment he laid aside—for straightway he preferred to overwhelm the mortal race beneath deep waves and storms from every raining sky.")
    • Meta Matter Manipulation (Jove could turn Juno back to her human form in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 1, Lines 622-650: "Juno regardful of Jove's cunning art, lest he might change her to her human form, gave the unhappy heifer to the charge of Argus, Aristorides, whose head was circled with a hundred glowing eyes; of which but two did slumber in their turn whilst all the others kept on watch and guard. Whichever way he stood his gaze was fixed on Io—even if he turned away his watchful eyes on Io still remained. He let her feed by day; but when the sun was under the deep world he shut her up, and tied a rope around her tender neck. She fed upon green leaves and bitter herbs and on the cold ground slept—too often bare, she could not rest upon a cushioned couch. She drank the troubled waters. Hoping aid she tried to stretch imploring arms to Argus, but all in vain for now no arms remained; the sound of bellowing was all she heard, and she was frightened with her proper voice. Where former days she loved to roam and sport, she wandered by the banks of Inachus: there imaged in the stream she saw her horns and, startled, turned and fled")
    • Meta Space-Time Manipulation (Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 1, Lines 113-125: "When Saturn had been banished into night and all the world was ruled by Jove supreme, the Silver Age, though not so good as gold but still surpassing yellow brass, prevailed. Jove first reduced to years the Primal Spring, by him divided into periods four, unequal,—summer, autumn, winter, spring.—then glowed with tawny heat the parched air, or pendent icicles in winter froze and man stopped crouching in crude caverns, while he built his homes of tree rods, bark entwined. Then were the cereals planted in long rows, and bullocks groaned beneath the heavy yoke")
    • Nigh-Omnipotence (Is the most powerful Roman god)
      • Nigh-Omnipotence Bestowal and Authority Bestowal (As the most powerful and supreme deity)
        • Conditional Omnipotence (Is repeatedly called omnipotent. Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 1, Lines 151-163: "Via thunderbolts. And lest ethereal heights should long remain less troubled than the earth, the throne of Heaven was threatened by the Giants; and they piled mountain on mountain to the lofty stars. But Jove, omnipotent, shot thunderbolts through Mount Olympus, and he overturned from Ossa huge, enormous Pelion)
        • Sealing Attacks/Absolute Separation (Sealed Typhon in Tartarus using his thunderbolts. In the same passage of Book 1: "And while these dreadful bodies lay overwhelmed in their tremendous bulk, (so fame reports) the Earth was reeking with the copious blood of her gigantic sons; and thus replete with moisture she infused the steaming gore with life renewed. So that a monument of such ferocious stock should be retained, she made that offspring in the shape of man; but this new race alike despised the Gods, and by the greed of savage slaughter proved a sanguinary birth."))
    • Oath Keeping and Political Manipulation (Via Roman consuls swearing an oath in his name)
    • Olympus Lordship (in the Daytime)
    • Omnifarious (Could transform into whatever he wanted)
    • Omni-Manipulation (As the sovereign of the universe)
    • Omnipresential Attack and Omni-Magic (As the sky; he type of action performed by Jupiter in the domains in which he operates indicates that Jupiter is a sovereign god who may act in the field of politics (as well as agriculture and war) in his capacity as such, i.e. in a way and with the features proper to a king. Sovereignty is expressed through the two aspects of absolute, magic power. However, sovereignty permits action in every field; otherwise, it would lose its essential quality. As a further proof, Dumézil cites the story of Tullus Hostilius (the most belligerent of the Roman kings), who was killed by Jupiter with a lightning bolt (indicating that he did not enjoy the god's favour). Varro's definition of Jupiter as the god who has under his jurisdiction the full expression of every being (penes Iovem sunt summa) reflects the sovereign nature of the god))
    • Omni-Protection (Custos ("protector, warden"))
    • Order Manipulation (The Romans believed that Jupiter granted them supremacy because they had honoured him more than any other people had. Jupiter was "the fount of the auspices upon which the relationship of the city with the gods rested." He personified the divine authority of Rome's highest offices, internal organization, and external relations)
    • Opposites Embodiment (More recently, Dario Sabbatucci has given a different interpretation of the meaning of Stator within the frame of his structuralist and dialectic vision of Roman calendar, identifying oppositions, tensions and equilibria: January is the month of Janus, at the beginning of the year, in the uncertain time of winter (the most ancient calendar had only ten months, from March to December). In this month Janus deifies kingship and defies Jupiter)
    • Sky Father Physiology (As the sky-god, he was a divine witness to oaths, the sacred trust on which justice and good government depend)
      • Celestial Manipulation (Controlled the sky; Jupiter Caelus, Jupiter as the sky or heavens)
      • Deity Lightning Manipulation (Killed Tullus after he did an improper ritual with a single thunderbolt)
        • Electricity Manipulation (Jupiter Tonans, "thunderer")
          • Lightning Bolt Projection and Atmospheric Adaptation (Other early epithets connected with the atmospheric quality of Jupiter are Pluvius, Imbricius, Tempestas, Tonitrualis, tempestatium divinarum potens, Serenator, Serenus and, referring to lightning, Fulgur, Fulgur Fulmen, later (as nomen agentis) Fulgurator, Fulminator. The high antiquity of the cult is testified by the neuter form Fulgur and the use of the term for the bidental, the lightning well dug on the spot hit by a lightning bolt)
        • Esoteric Lightning Manipulation and Rain Manipulation (Among Jupiter's most ancient epithets is Lucetius, interpreted as referring to light (lux, lucis), specifically sunlight, by ancient and some modern scholars such as Wissowa. The Carmen Saliare, however, indicates that it refers to lightning. To the same atmospheric complex belongs the epithet Elicius: while the ancient erudites thought it was connected to lightning, it is in fact related to the opening of the reservoirs of rain, as is testified by the ceremony of the Nudipedalia, meant to propitiate rainfall and devoted to Jupiter)
          • Absolute Burning (Jupiter Lucetius ("of the light"), an epithet almost certainly related to the light or flame of lightning bolts and not to daylight, as indicated by the Jovian verses of the carmen Saliare)
      • Divine Lord Physiology (Jupiter is the god of heaven and retains his identification with the sky among the Latin poets (his name is used as a synonym for "sky".) In this respect, he differs from his Greek equivalent Zeus (who is considered a personal god, warden and dispenser of skylight). His name reflects this idea; it is a derivative of the Indo-European word for "bright, shining sky")
      • Divine Weather Manipulation (Master of Weather)
        • Storm Manipulation and Faith Empowerment (Wissowa acknowledges that Jupiter is not merely a naturalistic, heavenly, supreme deity; he is in continual communication with man by means of thunder, lightning and the flight of birds)
        • Thunder Manipulation (Jupiter Fulgur ("Lightning Jupiter"))
        • Thundercloud Manipulation and Concept Destruction (Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 14, Line 805 "O Romulus, were giving laws to peoples now made one, when Mars put off his helmet and addressed the father of gods and men in words like these: “The time has come, for now the Roman state has been established on a strong foundation and no more must rely on one man's strength the time has come for you to give the prize, promised to me and your deserving grandson, to raise him from the earth and grant him here a fitting place in heaven. One day you said to me before a council of the gods, (for I recall now with a grateful mind how I took note of your most gracious speech) `Him you shall lift up to the blue of heaven.’ Now let all know the meaning of your words!” The god all-powerful nodded his assent, and he obscured the air with heavy clouds and on a trembling world he sent below harsh thunder and bright lightning")
      • Kingdom Manipulation (Jupiter's association with kingship and sovereignty was reinterpreted as Rome's form of government changed. Originally, Rome was ruled by kings)
      • Sacrifice Empowerment (Jupiter was the chief deity of Roman state religion throughout the Republican and Imperial eras, until Christianity became the dominant religion of the Empire. In Roman mythology, he negotiates with Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome, to establish principles of Roman religion such as offering, or sacrifice.)
      • Sky Lordship (Controller of the sky)
        • Day Sky Manipulation and Day Inducement (Older forms of the deity's name in Rome were Dieus-pater ("day/sky-father"), then Diéspiter. The 19th-century philologist Georg Wissowa asserted these names are conceptually- and linguistically-connected to Diovis and Diovis Pater; he compares the analogous formations Vedius-Veiove and fulgur Dium, as opposed to fulgur Summanum (nocturnal lightning bolt) and flamen Dialis (based on Dius, dies))
    • Primordial Element Manipulation, Formlessness and Meta-Concept Manipulation (Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 8, Fable 2-3 and lines 229-264: “The everlasting universe contains four elementary bodies. Two of these, namely, earth and water, are heavy, and are borne downwards by their weight; and as many are devoid of weight, and air, and fire still purer than air, nothing pressing them, seek the higher regions. Although these are separated in space, yet all things are made from them, and are resolved into them. Both the earth dissolving distils into flowing water; the water, too, evaporating, departs in the breezes and the air; its weight being removed again, the most subtle air shoots upwards into the fires of the æther on high. Thence do they return back again, and the same order is unravelled; for fire becoming gross, passes into dense air; this changes into water, and earth is formed of the water made dense. Nor does its own form remain to each; and nature, the renewer of all things, re-forms one shape from another. And, believe me, in this universe so vast, nothing perishes; but it varies and changes its appearance; and to begin to be something different from what it was before, is called being born; and to cease to be the same thing, is to be said to die. Whereas, perhaps, those things are transferred hither, and these things thither; yet, in the whole, all things ever exist.")
      • Primordial Lightning Manipulation/Primordial Lightning Generation and Planet Destruction (Jupiter is Zeus' equivalent and in Hesiod's Theogony, lines 617-820: "The hot vapour lapped round the Titenes Khthonios (Earthly): flame unspeakable rose to the bright upper air (aither): the flashing glare of the thunder-stone and lightning blinded their eyes for all that there were strong. Astounding heat seized air (khaos): and to see with eyes and to hear the sound with ears it seemed even as if Earth (Gaia) and wide Heaven (Ouranos) above came together; for such a mighty crash would have arisen if Earth (Gaia) were being hurled to ruin, and Heaven (Ouranos) from on high were hurling her down; so great a crash was there while the gods were meeting together in strife. Also the winds brought rumbling earthquake and duststorm, thunder and lightning and the lurid thunderbolt, which are the shafts of great Zeus, and carried the clangour and the warcry into the midst of the two hosts. An horrible uproar of terrible strife arose: mighty deeds were shown and the battle inclined. But until then, they kept at one another and fought continually in cruel war... And great Olympos was shaken under the immortal feet of the master as he moved, and the earth groaned beneath him, and the heat and blaze from both of them was on the dark-faced sea, from the thunder and lightning of Zeus and from the flame of the monster, from his blazing bolts and from the scorch and breath of his stormwinds, and all the ground and the sky and the sea boiled, and towering waves were tossing and beating all up and down the promontories in the wind of these immortals, and a great shaking of the earth. The life-giving earth crashed around in burning, and the vast wood crackled loud with fire all about. All the land seethed, and Okeanos' streams and the unfruitful sea.")
    • Omnibenevolence (Some epithets include: Servator O. M. ("saviour, preserver, observer")
    • Reality Warping (Via turning gods into their human forms or giving powers with a thought)
      • Absolute Command/Absolute Wish (Book 3 lines 316 of the Metamorphoses: "Jove, to recompense his loss of sight, endowed him with the gift of prophecy.")
    • Seer and Prayer Empowerment (Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 15, Line 843-971: "Saturn yields to Jove. Now Jupiter rules in high heavens and is the suzerain over the waters and the world of shades, and now Augustus rules in all the lands—so each is both a father and a god. Gods who once guarded our Aeneas, when both swords and fire gave way, and native gods of Italy, and Father Quirinus—patron of Rome, and you Gradivus too—the sire of Quirinus the invincible, and Vesta hallowed among Caesar's gods, and Phoebus ever worshipped at his hearth, and Jupiter who rules the citadel high on Tarpeia's cliff, and other gods—all gods to whom a poet rightfully and with all piety may make appeal; far be that day—postponed beyond our time, when great Augustus shall foresake the earth which he now governs, and mount up to heaven, from that far height to hear his people's prayers!")
    • Serenity Inducement/Absolute Emotions (Is said to be very calm; Serenus ("clear, serene, calm; happy"))
    • Soul Manipulation/Absolute Spirituality (Could likely control the souls of everyone in Mount Olympus)
    • Stability Inducement and Omni-Resistance (Jupiter Stator, from stare, "to stand": "he who has power of founding, instituting everything", thence also he who bestows the power of resistance, making people, soldiers, stand firm and fast)
    • Stagnation and Stillness Inducement (Jupiter Centumpeda, literally, "he who has one hundred feet"; that is, "he who has the power of establishing, of rendering stable, bestowing stability on everything", since he himself is the paramount of stability)
    • Absolute Strength (Jupiter Optimus Maximus ("the best and greatest"). Optumus because of the benefits he bestows, Maximus because of his strength, according to Cicero Pro Domo Sua)
      • Misfortune Redirection (Via rain of stones. The god manifested his discontent through the prodigy of a rain of stones: the commission sent by the Roman senate to inquire was also greeted by a rain of stones and heard a loud voice from the grove on the summit of the mount)
    • Supreme Divinity (Is the highest deity in the Roman Pantheon)
      • Absolute Transmutation (Presumably was the reason why Janus has two heads according to some myths; in Ovid's Metamorphoses line 216: "I showed his people that a God had come, the lowly prayed and worshiped me, but this Lycaon mocked their pious vows and scoffing said; ‘A fair experiment will prove the truth if this be god or man.’ and he prepared to slay me in the night,—to end my slumbers in the sleep of death." and in book 2, lines 508-532: "Now let high Jove to human shape transform this hideous beast, as once before he changed his Io from a heifer.—Let him now divorce his Juno and consort with her, and lead Calisto to his couch, and take that wolf, Lycaon, for a father-in-law!")
    • Supreme Observation (In Metamorpheses Book 1, Lines 199-213: "I sloped my course from high Olympus, and—although a God—disguised in human form I viewed the world. It would delay us to recount the crimes unnumbered, for reports were less than truth."
    • Trinity Force (Jupiter-Juno-Minerva)
    • True Name Manipulation and Invocation (Epithets)
    • Absolute Invincibility (As the highest Roman deity)
      • Undefeatability (As the king of the gods, he is never shown losing, even against Typhon in the Metamorphoses)
    • War Manipulation (If a declaration of war ensues, the fetial calls upon Jupiter and Quirinus, the heavenly, earthly and chthonic gods as witnesses of any potential violation of the ius. He can then declare war within 33 days)
      • Absolute Strength (Iuppiter Stator was first attributed by tradition to Romulus, who had prayed to the god for his almighty help at a difficult time during the battle with the Sabines of king Titus Tatius. Dumézil opines the action of Jupiter is not that of a god of war who wins through fighting: Jupiter acts by causing an inexplicable change in the morale of the fighters of the two sides)
      • Victory Inducement ("Jupiter will stop the rout of the Roman army and if afterwards the Samnite legions shall be victoriously massacred...It looked as if the gods themselves had taken side with Romans, so much easily did the Roman arms succeed in prevailing...")
      • Battlefield Adaptation (In war or in general combat)

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Comics/Cartoons

  • Roman Gods (Legend of the Three Caballeros)
  • King Neptune (SpongeBob SquarePants)
  • Minerva (The Wicked + The Divine)

Anime/Manga

  • Proserpina (Toaru Majutsu no Index)

Literature

Movies

  • Vulcan (The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen)
  • Venus (The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen)

Video Games

  • Olympos XII (Digimon)
    • Apollomon
    • Bacchusmon
    • Ceresmon
    • Dianamon
    • Junomon
    • Jupitermon
    • Marsmon
    • Merukimon
    • Minervamon/Mervamon
    • Neptunemon
    • Venusmon
    • Vulcanusmon
  • Plutomon (Digimon)
  • Cupid (Growtopia)
  • Various Personas (Perosona series)
  • Vesta (Megami Ibunroku Persona)
  • Venus (Persona 2)
  • Vulcanus (Persona 2)
  • Juno (Persona 3)
  • Mercurius (Persona 5)
  • Roman gods (Smite)
  • Amour (TYPE-MOON)
  • Nero Claudius (TYPE-MOON); as Saber Venus
  • Romulus-Quirinus (TYPE-MOON)
  • Diana (Valkyrie Crusade)
  • Juno (Valkyrie Crusade)
  • Jupiter (Valkyrie Crusade)
  • Mars (Valkyrie Crusade)
  • Mercury (Valkyrie Crusade)
  • Minerva (Valkyrie Crusade)
  • Venus (Valkyrie Crusade)
  • Vesta (Valkyrie Crusade)
  • Volcanus (Valkyrie Crusade)
  • Cupid (Valkyrie Crusade)


Other

  • Tiberius (Grindhouse and Watercolors)
  • Honos/Honor (Roman Mythology)
  • King of the Sacred Rites/Rex Sacrorum (Roman Mythology"); Janus only

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