Cult of Gods

Minerva

Roman tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains
wisdom, crafts, strategy
Symbols and attributes
Owl; helmet
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

Third of the Capitoline Triad with Jupiter and Juno. In Ovid, she is born from Jupiter's head.

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

Primary sources

  • Ovid, Fasti III

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 Minerva: wisdom, writing and divination, war and fighting, craft, smiths and making. This is overlap in one area only.

Norse

Odin

wisdom, poetry, war

Norse

Frigg

foresight, marriage, motherhood

Norse

Thor

thunder, protection of gods and people, strength

Norse

Freyja

love, desire, magic (seiðr)

Norse

Týr

law, oaths, war

Egyptian

Isis

magic, protection, motherhood

Egyptian

Seth

storm, desert, chaos

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