Cult of Gods

Juno

Roman tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains
marriage, women, the state
Symbols and attributes
Peacock; diadem
Parents (per the sources used)
Saturn and Ops
Partner
Jupiter
Children
Mars, Vulcan
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

Queen of the gods, protector of women and of Rome. In the Aeneid, her hatred of the Trojans drives much of the plot.

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

Primary sources

  • Virgil, Aeneid I

All sources for the Roman pantheon

Lineage in the sources used: 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 Juno: love, desire and fertility. This is overlap in one area only.

Norse

Freyr

peace, fertility, sunshine

Norse

Freyja

love, desire, magic (seiðr)

Egyptian

Hathor

love, music, joy

Hindu

Parvati

power (shakti), marriage, mountains

Hindu

Krishna

love, divine play, the Gita's teacher

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