Deity Greek and Roman
Caelus
Roman god of the sky
A god is known
by the accounts
that name it.
Accounts kept apart
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Family
The family of Caelus
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 7
Kinship in an account 7
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (child) Aether primordial Greek deity, personification of the upper air -
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child of (child) Dies personification of day, and the Roman counterpart of the Greek goddess Hemera -
parent of (father) Janus Roman deity -
parent of (father) Ops Roman goddess of earth and fertility -
parent of (father) Saturn god in ancient Roman mythology -
partner of Hecate Greek goddess -
partner of (spouse) Terra personification of the Earth in ancient Roman religion and mythology
Connections
How Caelus connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Identification 6
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- identified with Allah Arabic word for God
- identified with Shangdi The High God, the supreme or single God of ancient Shenism, some salvationist religions like Yiguandao, and Protestant Christianity in Chinese translation
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identified with Tengri chief deity of Turko-Mongolic religion -
identified with Tinia Etruscan god -
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identified with Ukko god of the sky, weather, harvest and thunder in Finnish mythology -
identified with Uranus primordial Greek deity, god of the Sky; one of the Greek primordial deities
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
13 statements on this record
- 1 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 12 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
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- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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