deity

Ares

Beings

The named Greek god of war and battle fury. Not Mars as the Roman planet-named twin under one id, and not war as a bare concept.

Hellenic religion

  • Ares appears in Hellenic religion.

    Herodotus’s Scythian logos gives Ares a distinctive cult of iron sword, sacrifices, and enemy spoils. A named ares in that traveler’s speech, not Mars as a Roman flatten and not horse-sacred-to-ares as the separate sacrifice row.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

    appears in · sourced · documented

  • Horse is sacred to Ares.

    Herodotus’s Scythian Ares cult sacrifices horses among the offerings at the iron-sword sanctuary. A named horse→sacred_to→ares meeting in that traveler’s speech, not horse egyptian appears_in as Book 2 attestation and not a generic cavalry dump.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

    sacred to · sourced · documented

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