Cult of Gods

Diana

Roman tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains
the hunt, the moon, childbirth
Symbols and attributes
Bow; stag
Parents (per the sources used)
Jupiter
Giacomo Caneva, photograph of a statue of Jupiter in the Campana collection, 1850s.
Giacomo Caneva, photograph of a statue of Jupiter in the Campana collection, 1850s.

Key myth

Worshipped in a grove at Nemi near Rome, where the priest, 'king of the wood', had to kill his predecessor.

Greek counterpart: Artemis on thegreekgods.org. Roman and Greek versions share names and stories in many places but began as different cults.

Primary sources

  • Ovid, Fasti III
  • Strabo V.3.12

All sources for the Roman pantheon

Lineage in the sources used: Jupiter, Saturn, Ops.

Place in the family graph

Choose a deity to see where it comes from. Dashed lines are links the sources describe that are not parent and child.

SaturnOpsJanusJupiterJunoNeptunePluto / Dis PaterCeresVestaQuirinusMinervaApolloDianaMercuryBacchus / LiberMarsVulcanVenus

More traditions

Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.NorsePapyrus of Ani, British Museum (New Kingdom), a Book of the Dead.EgyptianA chaos monster and a sun god, drawn by L. Gruner for A. H. Layard's Monuments of Nineveh.MesopotamianVishvarupa Vishnu, Kashmir or Himachal, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection.Hindu

Elsewhere in the world

Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Diana: the moon. This is overlap in one area only.

Egyptian

Thoth

writing, moon, wisdom

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