Mythology

• March 16, 2025C-Entries, Delineation, Glossary, Mythology

  Chronos

  The original supreme deity, superseded by Zeus (2) In ancient texts, the planet Saturn (q.v.) DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.

• March 16, 2025Asteroids, C-Entries, Glossary, Mythology

  Ceres

  Daughter of Ops and Saturn; a Roman goddess of growing vegetation, particularly corn. Her day of celebration occurred on April 19th. (2) The first of the Asteroids (q.v.) to be […]

• February 15, 2025B-Entries, Glossary, Mythology

  Baal (Lord)

  Among the Phoenicians the chief male divinity who appears to have symbolizedBgod of fertility of soil and increase of flocks. In successive periods of the history of the ancientSemitic races, […]

• January 4, 2025Glossary, Mythology, Philosophy

  Aten

  The solar disk, or more specifically the light that proceeds from the sun, as defined by Akhenaten, or Amenhotep IV (obit. circa 1397 B.C.), father-in-law of King Tutankamen, who promulgated a religion largely based on astrological teachings.

• January 4, 2025Glossary, Hellenistic, Mythology

  Ares

  The Greek god of War and Pestilence: Son of Zeus and Hera, consort of Aphrodite. The Romans associated him with Mars, the enemy of tyrans and defender of the just.