NAME: Ares, Ares Enyalios (the warlike `Sparta.´), Ares Hippios (in Olympia where he was also the god of horses.) He is associated with the Roman's Mars.
SYMBOLS: Helmet, Spear, Vulture.
USUAL IMAGE: There are not many of Ares, though as he was Greek and a god it stands to reason that he looked like a Greek god. He is sometimes depicted clean shaven and sometimes with a beard. Of the few statues of him many have a cruel expression.
HOLY BOOKS: None, while he shows up in the Illiad, Homer has nothing but unkind things to say about him.
HOLY DAYS: None other then days on which battles take place.
RELATIVES: Hera (mother), Zeus (father. though some accounts state that he was not fathered by Zeus but that he and his sister Eris came about then Hera touched a flower.), Eris (sister), Deimos, Phobos, Alcon, Ascalaphus, Cycnus, Diomedes, nameless dragon that guarded the spring of Ares in Thebes, Dryas, Evenus, Melanippus, Meleager, Molus, Nisus, Oeagrus, Oenomaus, Parthenopaeus, Phlegyas, Phlegyas, Pylus, Tereus, Thestius (sons), Alcippe, Harmonia, the Amazons, Nike, Thrassa (daughters.)
SYNODEITIES: Druaga (Babylonian), Morrigan (Celtic), Mixcoatl-Camaxtli (Aztec), Chao Kung Ming (Chinese), Montu (Egyptian), Bhima (Hindu), Futsu Nushi No Kami (Japan Shinto), Tue (Norse).
DETAILS:
The activities that humans engage in the most seem to have the most deities. Life, death, sex, love, and to be sure war.
The Greeks had two such deities. There was the Goddess Athena who ruled over the "intelligent" aspects of conflict. And there was Ares, who was the personification of war as low, brutish and savage.
As a God Ares it seemed did not get much respect. According to Homer he was disliked by most of the other Gods and Goddesses, even by Zeus and Hera his mother and father. Homer however is not the only place where a disliking for the War God of Thrace is shown.
There are numerous other tales where ether Ares or one of his sons or daughters is shown in a very negative light.
He was not however without his fans. Among the Gods Aphrodite Goddess of love, Enyo Goddess of war, Eris Goddess of strife and his sister, Harmonia Goddess of the Amazons, Eos Goddess of the dawn, and the Keres Goddesses of death in battle were his allies.
Which to me bring up an interesting point. Note that all the dieties in his camp were female. Ture there were a few male followers, such as Phobos and the like, however they were without ecseption his sons and plainly those apples did not bounch far from the sacred tree!
Are we to conclude anything from this? Did that "bad boy" magic work back then as well as it does today?
And then there is the parentage of Ares, while convention says that his father and mother were Zeus and Hera there are other myths that state that he and his sister Eris came about when Hera "touched a flower." (just as she gave birth to Hebe after touching a lettuce.)
I would say there is much interesting detail and meaning lost to history in this myth!
Whatever the case, with the atmospher that is in the air I thought that Ares seemed an appropreout god of the month. There are better Gods of War no doubt. But there are few, I think, that come closer to it's true nature.
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