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\n Coelus<\/b><\/em> on the armour Octavian Augustus<\/a>, opposed to the Earth goddess at the bottom. <\/div>\n \n \n <\/div>\n \n

Coelus<\/em> or Caelus<\/em> was a god of heaven, rather regarded as a personification<\/a>; there is no evidence of a separate cult of this god. Its counterpart is the Greek god Uranus, although Coelus<\/em> played a much smaller role in Roman mythology than Uranus in Greek. His name comes from the word caelum<\/em>, meaning “heaven”.<\/p>\n

Coelus<\/em> was considered according to Marcus Terentius Varro<\/a> the spouse of the goddess Tellus<\/em> (Greek Gaia) and the father of her children: Saturn<\/a>, Ops<\/a>, Oceanos as well as Titans and Giants<\/a>. They were both considered pater<\/em> and mater<\/em> (“father” and “mother”) and “great deities” (dei magni<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Caelus<\/em> starts making a regular appearance in Augustan art, along with the cult of Mithra<\/a> during the imperial era. Vitruvius<\/a> places him among the heavenly gods<\/a> whose temples (aedes<\/em>) should be built with an opening to heaven. As the god of heaven, he gradually came to be identified with Jupiter<\/a>. This is indicated for example by the inscription that reads Maximus Optimus Caelus Aeternus Iup[pi]ter<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Coelus or Caelus was a god of heaven, rather regarded as a personification; there is no evidence of a separate cult of this god. Its counterpart is the Greek god Uranus, although Coelus played a much smaller role in Roman mythology than Uranus in Greek. His name comes from the word caelum, meaning “heaven”. Coelus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":38090,"parent":54765,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-101991","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101991\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}